This apartment was unfortunately a terrible experience I absolutely can not recommend it.
When I arrived the apartment was very dirty and also the garbage of the predecessors was still in the apartment. There was not even toilet paper. This was then fixed the next day.
Then in the middle of winter, the heating failed. Outside it had snow and minus degrees, inside the thermometer barely went above 13 degrees. I immediately reported this to the manager Kris, who then gave me the door code of the tenants above the apartment to get the heating running himself, as he was in Mauritius. (I found it extremely uncomfortable to walk around alone in someone else's household without the occupants being adequately informed.) Unfortunately, however, I was unable to turn on the heater as it was broken. Joanne did not take action to get it fixed until a week later. Kris called me several times in the middle of the night after midnight because he kept forgetting that there was a big time difference between Washington and Mauritius. Extremely inconvenient, since I am not on vacation but for work in DC.
The crowning glory after the heating was then the mice. I lived together with mice in this basement apartment for over two weeks until I moved out. The mice were all over the kitchen table and made restful sleep almost impossible. Again, the landlady was very slow to react.
In general, the apartment is very unloving and partially worn out. There is no stove, but only a strange camping stove to plugin. Those who are taller than 1.75m will not be able to stand straight in all parts of the apartment.
All these incidents like garbage, no heating, and mice can happen in an Air Bnb of course, especially in old houses like these. However, Joanne did not really respond professionally here and was incredibly unfriendly in communication. Constantly blamed the cause of all problems on all sorts of people instead of taking responsibility herself. In the end, she even blamed me for putting the heater out of commission myself. Some things could have been saved here if she had been a little nicer.
The only positive here are the residents of the upper floor, who were really always very nice, eager and helpful.
If you are only staying in DC for a short time and have few requirements, you will certainly find suitable accommodation here. For longer stays like mine, it gets very uncomfortable here.
For the sake of completeness, I would like to mention that I then received a 50% refund from Air Bnb for 10 days.