Beautiful rental - a cozy century home with clever use of space. The back yard is an oasis, with all kinds of opportunities for active or very mellow fun. By popular demand we spent our last full day as a chill out day and took advantage of the firepit - the kids thoroughly enjoyed making 'real' S'mores. There's an extensive list of tips and recommendations and a very welcoming vibe overall.
The neighborhood is 'transitional' - there's a mix of older residential homes and commercial properties (a lot of auto repair). We used the rental as a base for exploring DC with our (younger) kids, so the immediate surroundings weren't really a consideration, and we had no problems whatsoever - everyone we met was very friendly. We were a little concerned about parking (it was mentioned in a few reviews) - honestly, it was a piece of cake. There's ample 24 hour free street parking within view of the house on the contiguous street. Also - previous reviews mentioned that there was no microwave... there is now! The house is not particularly convenient to the DC Metro, but we used UberXL (5 people ~$22 each way to/from the Mall) for our first excursion, and later just sucked up the hunt for metered parking downtown (really not that bad, especially after 5pm).
Katie and Rafael were great to deal with and we'd highly recommend their home as a base for a DC visit.