This is a hard one, as we do not want to be too harsh, the hosts very friendly and responsive even though they were away for Thanksgiving, but we do use airbnb a lot and we would like to hear honest feedbacks ourselves. So here it is - the apartment smelled terribly, even the friend who drop us off said this is not normal. It was not the smell that we were able to deal with by opening windows and using tones of candles and air fresheners. We think it was the sewage or the pipes. We did look for other option to move to, and hardly slept first night, but we could not find good alternatives, so we stayed, hoping with time it will get better, it did slightly, or maybe we just got used to it, we never looked forward to coming back to the apartment. Also, we did made a comment to the hosts that the lock on the door felt very flimsy and as we are not familiar with DC and the area, we did not feel safe at times. For the basement apartment I think a better lock could be installed. But the main problem was the bad, lingering smell. It is a shame and hope something can be done about this, though we don't think we will be staying in a basement apartment again. Lovely hosts, so hope they can fix it.