I wish I would have read up on the previous reviews. Really, the whole place was sticky, dirty. Not sure why a professional cleaning service is not either hired, or Fired if there is one. The TV screen was caked in handprints, fingerprints, food, and who knows what. Same with the sliding glass doors, same with the pictures on the wall. UHG.
So I actually had to clean the TV screen myself. THE FLOORS WERE NOT EVEN MOPPED. There is never a reason that this should not be done between paying renters. There were various sticky spill marks of whatever, on the kitchen floor all over. I got so sick of walking on the sticky, that I had to get wet paper towels and mop up the gross spills myself!! I honestly didn't even want to sit/lay on the (brown) couches. The Over the Stove microwave is broken, so there is another (big) one on the counter, which takes up All the counter space (small kitchen) that you need to prepare meals. The remote control back was missing, so the batteries kept falling out. I found it partly under couch, which also had old gross snack foods under it and was gross. The screen door (on sliding door) had a huge (approx12x12 inch) rip/hole in it. We tried taping paper towels over the hole on the screen, to cover the hole so the bugs wouldn't come in. As far as other stuff, it's basically as others have said...it is in a building that is sandwiched closely between other buildings. So no view of anything to speak of, but the back of other buildings. It is up a lot of very tall steep steps, top floor. So many trips up/down carrying your things. The good news is that it was quiet for us, this time of year. And in summer you are probably not there most of the time anyway. To back out of car space, you have to be careful to try not to hit the other building, it's that close. It was nice to see the sun set on the bay side nearby. The ocean was across the highway and down the street a ways, but not bad for us, it was too cold to be out long anyway. (Probably a block and a half).
It is near to some restaurants for convenience, I imagine it's super busy in summer. The place needs some fixing up, the floor is spongy/rotted by the front door, and apt. must be cleaned top to bottom.... It may be a good place for people with a lot of small kids, because clearly everything is sticky/handprints/food etc...but it should be cleaned EXTRA then in that case, for the next guests who don't have little kids.