As for the good- the neighborhood is great. There are lots of locally owned restaurants and shops. The bus picks up across the square for quick access to the mall and the Eastern Market metro station is a 6 minute walk. The apartment is good sized and there are enough windows so that it doesn't feel too basement-y. It was decently clean (there was more mildew in the shower than I am comfortable with and roaches in the laundry room I will get to in a sec)
As for the bad- you can hear everything that happens upstairs. I can only assume there was some sort of toddler marathon training happening from 6:30am-8pm, and then adult walking until at least 10:30. The "concierge person"- Angela, wrote me to ask if all was okay the second day and I politely asked that Friday morning they try to keep it down so we could sleep in past 7am before our 11 hour drive. Yeah, that didn't happen. I also let the "concierge person" know that there were quite a few dead cockroaches in the laundry room at that time. Instead of offering to do something about it she was defensive and said they were water bugs. I mean, who cares, dead bugs are not something you want to see in a vacation rental. I was also misled on the parking situation. I messaged before I booked to ask about it. I was told there was street parking and more across the street. Yeah-not true. In the welcome info in the apartment it even states that many renters choose to park at Union Station and take the metro back, so this was not news to whoever was texting me back. Oh, and I asked for a late checkout after we booked. They completely ignored my request. It didn't really matter because we were ready to get the heck out of there the morning we were leaving, but it was all around terrible customer service on the part of their "concierge service". You won't ever actually speak to the owners, if that matters to you.