Katherine is an excellent host. Very pleasant to communicate with and warm and welcoming. We enjoyed the stay!
Other things of note:
-Great location to take any of the S buses down south to The Mall or hope on a freeway to go into Virginia and Maryland.
-Safeway is a close walk.
-There is no stove in the kitchen so shop accordingly. We mostly ate out and bought food that we could store in the fridge and microwave.
-The shower is great!
-In the summer the room can get a little cold with the AC but they are very accommodating with temp changes and should be installing a separate H/VAC unit
-Very clean space and nice to have carpet to sit-on
-The sofa bed sleeps horizontally so it might appear to sleep 3 but sleeps 2
-There is no real closet space
-Nice outside garden area
-As Kathryn mentioned, they are a young family, so you may hear little footsteps in the morning
All in all, would definitely recommend the lovely basement apartment!