Our best friends (who Iive in Chicago) came for a visit to show their kids beautiful sunny California. We rented this home so we could enjoy a few days at the beach during their stay in CA. The house was very nice, great location in Balboa on the canal, and working with Greg was very easy. He is always quick to respond and very helpful in every way. The one bummer was the bridge construction going on one house away from the rental. Thankfully we only experienced one morning of noise, but the view with all the construction off the patio was not as pretty as I know it normally would be without it. The house was well appointed with everything you could need in the kitchen and linens. I have a couple of recommendations though. One would be to make the upstairs bedroom/bathroom, that currently holds 2 twin beds, a second master bedroom by putting in a Queen sized bed so it can be occupied and used by adults who want a ensuite bathroom and put the twin beds downstairs. My husband and I wanted our own private bathroom but had to sleep apart in the twin beds, we gave our friends the master bedroom, and our kids had to sleep together in the Queen downstairs. Also, the Queen bed in the downstairs bedroom is really a pull out couch, which is not as comfortable as a bed. There is also a lot of furniture in that room that made using the portable air conditioning unit tough to manuever around. I would also suggest putting in central air, it was a warm couple of days, the portable units were great at keeping rooms cool, but they were very loud and the one in the master bedroom kept shorting out at night. The little town is adorable and we enjoyed walking around at night. We didn't realize that the Fun Zone (a ferry ride across the bay) closed at 6pm every night, so our teenagers didn't get to go hang out over there in the evenings like we had planned. Overall though, I would recommend staying at this house. We had 9 people, the boys slept on the couches and on a blow up mattress in the family room and it was fine for the couple nights we were there. Staying longer than a couple of days with that many people would have not been enjoyable for more than the short time we were there. I would go back with less people and once the bridge is done being built.