I lived in Katy’s basement apartment for 3 months during the summer of 2017. In short, I think the place she is offering is nice BUT way overpriced considering what you get/don’t get. Read below for more detail.

1)	You sort of have a kitchen. There’s a hot plate, microwave, mini fridge, toaster, and most of the utensils you could need. There’s a bathroom sink that you can do all your dishes in. Imagine a college dorm room.
2)	Although you cannot directly control the temperature in your room, there is an AC/heater window unit. However, you cannot run the AC unit while cooking or the breakers will short.
3)	You do have access to a washer and dryer, and Katy is very flexible about making sure you can use it when you need. However, if the washer is running, you will not get hot water in the shower so you have to coordinate around that a little bit.
4)	The house is in a very nice neighborhood, always quiet, safe to go on runs at night, etc. However, it is a solid 15-20-minute walk from the metro station, and Uber/Lyft rides are more expensive in this area in comparison to others. I never took the bus so I cannot speak on that front.
5)	The entrance into the basement apartment is extremely sketchy and sort of dangerous at night and in the rain.
6)	I had a lot of issues with receiving mail/packages. Katy threw away my mail once and didn’t tell me she put the mail on hold so I was delayed getting my package for a few weeks. If you can avoid getting mail here, I would say do that. Otherwise, make sure to let her know you are expecting something.
7)	I’m an early riser so this didn’t bother me, but you can definitely hear the kids running around up-stairs.
8)	She gives you plenty of privacy. She always asked before the maid came over, and she never came into the room uninvited.
9)	I found that she would either reply to text immediately upon sending or it would take 12 hours for a response. This wasn’t a problem for me, but I can see how this can be troublesome.
10) The room looks pretty much identical to the pictures, so those are very accurate.
11) Katy and her family are friendly people who will welcome conversation in passing. I really enjoyed this.