"Best VRBO" "Best Stay" -- 100% 5⭐︎ Reviews

We built this home and have owned it for 17 years. My wife and I are retired now and are roaming the world and sailing the 7 seas in our boat, including San Francisco Bay. We love to host new people and allow them to find the sights, pleasures, and joys of San Francisco. We first moved here in 1976, moved to the country to raise our boys, and returned to our beloved SF (don't call it "Frisco"! :) when our boys formed their own families.

My wife loves art -- she is an art history MA. I love sailing anywhere in the world and meeting people. We both love being with our kids and grandkids. I grew up in California as a country boy whilst my wife is a Brooklynite. She loves reading and book clubs. I love projects and connecting.

Our home is the bottom level of a 4-story building built in 1908. EVERYTHING in the building has been redone, down to the pipes and electrical wires. You won't find old, danky kitchen drawers or grimy bathtubs here. Everything sparkles! Plus! -- it has a fabulous history as being the "Vertigo Building" -- where Alfred Hitchcock filmed the opening scene to the famous Vertigo movie on our roof.

Why do you want to come here? The bed is incredibly comfortable -- an expensive Casper mattress. The location can't be beat if you want to be in the middle of everything or hop a cable car. The cable car at one end of the street goes up, the other end of the street has a down cable car. Don't like cable cars? We walk everywhere here, from downtown, to North Beach, to Chinatown, to shopping, to Union Street, to the Mission. If you like walking exercise, you'll get plenty walking the hills around our place although our street is level 2-3 blocks in either direction.

Another reason you want to come here... it's not your typical short-term rental. We live here but it's not chock-a-block full of our stuff. Plenty, plenty of space for your things to be unpacked. It's chic and stylish. Want to cook? Welcome to a chef's kitchen! Want a good shower or bath? Welcome to possible the best shower you'll ever have. Need to wash a lot of clothes from days of travel? Welcome to a full size washer/dryer.