For anyone looking for a comfortable little place to spend a few busy days in DC, Hope's place is just right and an excellent value. It's a quick two block walk from the Columbia Heights Metro station (Green Line), which drops you right into the center of DC in a few short minutes. There's shopping next to the Metro stop for whatever you may want or need - including a few good restaurants in the area as well. Hope knows the neighborhood well, has lived there for a long time, and can give helpful tips on different places to go - fast or fun. She runs a friendly, organized (explains everything well at check-in), and clean little place that, in the winter, is always warm and cozy. She apparently has done a great job making sure smoker's know there's a real cost to smoking in her place; I'm allergic to smoke and her efforts have made sure that the inside is and remains smelling smoke-free. She's super attentive to her guests, if you need anything. She even allowed me to leave my luggage at her place the day of check-out as I ran around the city finishing up my last meetings. Though the apartment building is old (as all of the buildings in the neighborhood are), the fixtures and appliances in the apartment are new and work well. If you don't like basement apartments, don't hesitate here; it also has modern security gates, DC's usual window bars, and modern electronic key-less locks, so its a safe place too. I'll definitely check with Hope on availability the next time I'm headed to DC!