Our home is two stories. The apartment that is for rent is on the first story. The apartment has a large deck and large windows that overlook a pond, oak trees, hillsides, and eucalyptus trees that line the property.

The home is in the countryside about minutes west from the US 101 highway, in a tight-knit, warm community made up of about a dozen single family homes who share a parking lot and access to 16 acres of rolli...