Karen greeted me, showed me around the house and made me feel welcome. Explained anything that needed explaining and left me to settle in. The basement floor was exactly as described, it was a very comfortable stay for me and had I all needed for my 2 weeks holiday. On the second week I found waking up in the basement without natural sunlight quite draining, but that's just a personal thing about light that Dale could not change.
The neighbourhood does have quite a few homeless people hanging around which I found a little daunting at times, but they seem very harmless once I got used to them being there.
Dale and Karen were great hosts that were there if one needed and gave plenty of space to oneself also.