As everyone else has noted, Joe and Chelsea are friendly, communicative hosts who make the whole process easy and stress-free. This location is really best for people with a car or who use car services like Uber; for this public-transit-only visitor it was a the bleak 15-min walk to the Red Line every day by auto body shops, the DC Waste Management facility, and a shopping center; or a less-bleak 20-min walk on some residential streets and some busy avenues.

The room is differently furnished than in the photos, but still neat and convenient. It can feel a little dormy (I had to change the toilet paper roll twice in four days because someone kept leaving the roll empty...) but the neighborhood is completely dark and silent at night except for the occasional train whistle; I slept like the dead! I was in town for a conference and enjoyed coming back to my comfortable and quiet room at the end of each busy day.