Cindy was a great help. She let us leave our luggage in her place early. She answered all of our questions regarding traveling within paris and did us a huge favor picking up our train tickets from the post office. She also allows guests to use her washer and dryer. There is also plenty of hot water. However, Cindys place is not 15 minutes from Paris. It is much farther. On metro it took us 40+ minutes to get to the Paris center. Even in a car it was 20+ mins. We each spent a total of $400-$500 in ubers because it was so far or because metros were not working over overnight and her place is so far out. I understand that Cindy has skin allergies as she mentioned but the homemade detergent of hers smelled strange and made the towels she provided smell dirty and damp. The entire home creaked with every step. I woke up all of my friends anytime i arrived late because the wood everywhere is creaking and loud. Half of us got sick after staying here full of allergies due to dust and mainly dust over books and an overload of decorations, i got bit on my legs from some type of bug in the full bed upstairs so did my fiance. At this point we had no option but to stay the remainde rof the trip in this place. We tried to make the best out of it as a big group of 8.