Overall, it was a great experience. It all started when I booked the airbnb for 7 days to visit a friend and hangout in Washington. Their response time is remarkable.
Initially we had trouble opening the door because there's this lock pad that you have to enter numbers and with the right combination, the door unlocks. However, we didn't know that if you don't open the door at the right time, the door locks itself again. By the second day, I finally understood their instruction of waiting 2 seconds then opening the door. After entering the code correctly, you'll hear the "errrrr" sound of the lock unlocking until you hear a click sound around 2 seconds after and that's when you twist and push the door open. The door to your room upstairs is a little blocked by the carpet on the floor so you have to give that door a good push to get it open.
The neighbourhood is a little ghetto but with all the safety features implemented to the stay, it still felt safe with the locking systems, security camera in the front and iron barred door in the back. There was also an incident in our stay where a car crashed into our side mirror while it was park on the side of the road in front of the airbnb. Jodi & Abraham responded pretty much instantly when we told them about this incident and they helped us with footage of the incident and made sure we were okay. For future travellers that have cars, preferably park in front of the stay so their cameras can catch any suspicious activities.
Although we had a car, we didn't use it most of the time because this place is so convenient to so many places. We liked walking down H street and looked at all the amazing restaurants and stores.
Something that's really cool about the area are these scooters that you can rent that are just laying around the streets and if you venture off too far and kinda tired to walk home, you can rent a scooter and cruise down the side walk. IT'S SO MUCH FUN.
The place has a nice kitchen; however, the only issue I have with it is that there's no countertop to cut stuff or put stuff on but there is a cutting board that I used over the edge of the sink to chop stuff up and prepare food on top of. There's no dining room so we just ate all of our meals on the coffee table in the living room which was still very nice. Something nice about the living room was that the T.V. already had a netflix account linked and and we watched many shows on it. Unfortunately, the T.V. stopped working a few days in and we just started to watch stuff on my laptop instead. Nice washroom with good water pressure coming from the shower head. However, the drain is a little slow so water builds up at your feet while you shower but that was find at the same time. It was basically like a shallow bath for your feet while you showered.
On my last day of my stay, I asked them if it was fine if I could stay later into the afternoon past my checkout time because i had a flight at 5pm and they were totally cool with me staying until 3pm which was such a lifesaver for me because checkout was originally 11am.
All in all, this was a great place and for the price– AMAZING. This was my first trip to the states as I originally come from Canada and I couldn't have wished for such an amazing experience. Jodi and Abraham are such nice and awesome people and I definitely will come back in the future. Best. Hosts. Ever.