Dan, has a decent place, and its easy to get to DC sights.
We were visiting DC to show our son the seat of power and history. Its a BIG positive, that the unit is close to all the sights in DC. Any location is never beyond a 8-12 dollar ride on UberX. Location came with some Trade-offs and we caught some of the unnecessary excitement exceptions (read further for additional comments further along). Overall had a positive experience and a decent stay.
The unit is recently remodeled and is clean, fresh, and has nice lights, an Alexa, and TV (with no cable, you can use your netflix account, we didnt). It looks just like the pics on AirBnB. Kitchen is clean, with new pots and very nice brand new appliances, coffee pot etc., easy to whip up a quick morning breakfast. The couch is more form than function.
The bed in the bedroom is clean and comfortable. The spare is an airbed, and the airbed leaked everso slowly, and it had to be refilled multiple times for our young son sometimes in the middle of night (the host can invest in a better quality airbed). The Spare pillows didnt have extra pillow covers., which is easily fixable. Those who are familiar with staying in Europe will relate to the bathroom, the unit has a european sized bathroom with a small shower-stall, a 8x12 sized washbasin and clean toilet. Functional, Clean, and Newly remodelled bathroom, but compact for the average user. It worked OK for us.
The unit has instant-hot water system, and seems to take a bit of time to for the hot water come thru, and sometimes put out tepid water. The wifi failed on me couple of times, and the reset/access is not convienient, it is buried under the bed., and since I am tech-savvy I could figure how to resolve it., and others may need some help.
The place is a 2-unit Condo. We stayed in lower unit., both units have Separate Electronic door locks, but share a common Verandah and the Main-door which is expected to stay unlocked at all times. On our 3rd night, we were locked out of the property becos of another tenant did not follow instructions. It was 11pm, and we returned after viewing Lincoln memorial, someone had dead bolted the main-door from the inside, essentially locking us out. We were on the street, exposed at mid-night, with a wife and kid, and in a not so great neighborhood, and it felt every bit uncomfortable. I have previously lived in south-central Los Angeles in the early 90s., so …..
Dan seems like a nice guy, always reachable but ONLY via email. So given our exception situation, the host did not call., but was available via email :), so we exchanged a series of messages..which felt a bit odd given our situation. I had to keep sending him emails on AirBnB messaging during our ordeal what I felt was like an eternity. While he was responsive, He had to reach his ppty managers who are essentially an answering service at 11pm. So the circus to get us back in the unit for NO FAULT of OURS, felt like a lonnng time., and we finally made it back inside middle of the night by 12.30am. It took about 1-1.5hrs to resolve. We had our young son who was scared of the situation, and my wife was a bit worried but supportive. Overall this was not something we expected, and signed up for. Imagine the situation for a single-woman, or for some one without a car or for someone with young kids...not good place to be at all. Luckily for us, we had a car, to go stay in a running vehicle, till we got back inside.
Given the location, of the property, our predicament, the resolution for our lock out at middle of night was not immediate or easy. A lot of easy fixes are available to handle such contingencies, and that has been communicated already to Dan the host. (electronic main door, a electronic lock box, a ring-camera, explicit instructions pasted on the walls in the verandah and unit-doors, are all easily doable but missed). Also, if you read reviews on this ppty, we were NOT the first ones who went thru this situation at this ppty. A very similar situation with batteries running out on the electronic-doors.
IMHO, while close to all the attractions and on a quiet street., the unit is located just beyond the gentrified portion on H-street close to Capitol hill area. Call it a neighborhood in transit. It misses the nicer part of capitol hill and H-street with restaurants, a whole-foods, hipster hangouts by about ~0.5mi or so. So don’t expect to be walking in/out to this place at odd hours.
That said it is a Clean unit and if proximity to attractions are important., and you are comfortable with DC surroundings, use this place.
Dan was very easy to reach otherwise and answered all our questions over email and airbnb messaging., and continued to help till we checked out., for the normal course, all this is good.