The host, Maria, is really nice and responsible. She welcomes us by giving a very detailed description about the whole Amsterdam city area, and gives us some helpful local insights about this city. She left some interesting tourist books for us in the room so we could borrow and read more about history and culture of this lovely city.
The apartment is adjacent to a canal, and the neighborhood is quite and decent. We came home pretty late often(after 11:00pm), but still feel safe enough to walk. The house itself is clean, lovely and very historical, sometimes you could hear people talking next door/upstairs, or floors creaked when you step on, but as there are house rules like asking people to keep voices down in late night or take off leather shoes and put on slippers(Maria is really thoughtful -she has slippers in bedroom in case you did not bring your own!), it's still quite and nice.