We spent 9 nights in one of Paolo's rooms. It met all of our needs. Paolo gave excellent directions so that we could check in after hours.
The location was perfect for us. The Giglia vaporetto stop was right outside the building. The lines 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2 all stopped at Guglia and took us wherever we wanted to go in Venice. If we wanted to go on the Grand Canal, we could take one of the above lines to the train station and change to Line 1.
The area around Paolo's airbnb had numerous restaurants and stores. The streets were great for people watching - they were filled with people of all ages, families with children, and a great variety of dogs taking their owners for walks.