diff --git a/omgeo/services/base.py b/omgeo/services/base.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/omgeo/services/base.py
+++ b/omgeo/services/base.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 class UpstreamResponseInfo():
     """
     Description of API call result from an upstream provider.
-    For cleaning and consistency, set attributes using the given methods.
+    For cleaning and consistency, set attributes using the given methods
+    (the constructor will automatically use these methods, as well).
     """
 
     def set_response_code(self, response_code):
@@ -63,6 +64,9 @@ class UpstreamResponseInfo():
         self.set_success(success)
         self.errors = errors
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        '%s %s %sms' % (self.geoservice, self.response_code, self.response_time)
+
 
 class GeocodeService():
     """
add repr method to geocoder info class