Beautiful, historic home. A lot of stairs to climb but they are worth it. Biggest drawback: Ryan does mention that the neighborhood is undergoing "urban renewal" and many of the reviews mention the excessive amount of litter and loitering in the neighborhood. Although I never experienced any crime, and most of the people near the house that I interacted with were friendly, several of our Uber drivers waned us about the neighborhood as they drove us home ( as though they thought we were in imminent danger) one even said 'don't be surprised if Uber drivers refuse to take you out there'. This attitude put a real damper on the trip, and though Ryan can't just pick up the house and move it, I thought I should say that even staying in the neighborhood seemed to bring a cloud over our trip. We walked to the train station many times, and to the Garfield Park Conservatory and we just kept to our selves and were fine.
The wifi provided was awesome! Never had any trouble with it. Also we really enjoyed having Netflix on the tv so we could enjoy our nightly routine of watching Friends just like we do at home. The room was spacious & comfortable. Pretty clean, but with a big drafty house there will be some dust collected just from every day use. We had fun playing pool downstairs, & played a game of checkers upstairs during a free afternoon we had. We never met Ryan, but he was quick to respond in all of our messaging with any questions we had. Overall our stay was good. Great value for a night or two.