I discourage anyone from renting this unit. Verlin seems to have done his best to make this one-room underground apartment more appealing, but it looks like a basement, smells like a basement, there is heavy foot traffic upstairs, and there is a dog on the property that sometimes barks. It also has no bed; just a pull-out couch. The larger problem, however, is that this is a neighborhood with significant crime issues, and I had the unfortunate experience of witnessing a daytime armed police raid on a house next door immediately after I checked in. That raid resulted in the confiscation of weapons and ammunition, and several arrests. Because of that, I notified Verlin that I was canceling my reservation and would instead be staying at a hotel. He never replied to me, cut off all contact, and charged a cancelation fee equivalent to about 2/3 of my rental cost. He also charged a cleaning fee even though I was in the apartment for less than a hour. As I explained to Verlin in a message later, I understand that he cannot control what his neighbors do, but to refuse to communicate with a guest after an incident like that is unprofessional and irresponsible. To provide a sense of this neighborhood, this is how a local website reported on the "operation" I witnessed by the Metropolitan Police Department's "crime suppression team": https://www.popville.com/2019/04/guns-recovered-mpd-dc-trinidad/#more-219412