We stayed at Elena´s place for one week. And had a real great time. Elena is pretty fast in answering questions and did every time her best that we had a good time. Big kitchen, amazing fridge with ice cube machine and trinking water, big grill outside, nice pool site, free wifi, amazing view over the city of Malaga and a lot more. The area where the house is placed is pretty calm, only sometimes a little bit noisy because the neighborhood have a lot of dogs. But no worries, there are all locked behind big doors. :-)
I would say to have an own car is nearly a must have. You have to drive a few minutes to the next supermarket and it is 25 minutes to drive to Malaga downtown. But to be honest we never checked how it will work with the bus.
Thanks again Elena that we had the chance to be your guests. We wish you all the best for the future!