TLDR: BAIT AND SWITCH, AVOID.
So, I booked this place for a family trip. We specifically wanted to live in the area around the White House, so I could show everything to the two oldest kids while carrying around our 7-months old infant. The day before we received the details for checking in, everything looked perfect, so the next morning we set off.
But when we arrived at the place in the afternoon, the clerk at the entrance to the apartment complex wouldn't let us in, because someone else just moved into the apartment that we booked. And meanwhile, we received a message that our booking was changed to a different apartment in Chinatown, a mile away.
We tried messaging the host, thinking it was some kind of misunderstanding, but they wouldn't reply, and the clerk essentially kicked us out of the lobby. We talked to the Airbnb support, and they offered some options, but as you can imagine, it's hard to book anything in Washington on Friday night, not to mention an apartment in the city center for a family our size.
So, because the car was already in the garage, we had to walk a mile with three kids and all our stuff right in the middle of the biggest heatwave to hit the US in the last decade.
The replacement apartment was fine. It wasn't anything like what we saw in the pictures or paid for, but it was clean, they had a nearby parking garage, and the staff was nice. The location wasn't great for a family with kids, though - you don't want to be around Chinatown after sunset, and our planned activities were now quite far away. But it was ok during the day, and there were some nice restaurants around.
The host only replied to our request the next day with essentially a "take it or leave it" message. No partial refund, no human apology, no nothing.
Essentially, they downgraded us from a great apartment with a great view to a mediocre apartment in a mediocre location. I get that life happens, and maybe the other person that they've placed into our apartment had legitimate reasons to be there, but it is still a blatant bait and switch: the host advertised one thing, lured us in, and switched us to a different worse thing when we were in a vulnerable position.
Anyway, try to avoid this host if you don't want to end up far away from the place you booked in something that doesn't look like the photos you saw here.