This place is beautiful, with tons of natural light, plants, and more paintings and art than we could count. It was also in a great location -- there are many restaurants, coffee shops, and parks within a 10-15 minute walk, and downtown is no more than 40 minutes away with traffic. Aleksandra and her family live in the same house on the bottom level; you are separated from them by a flight of a stairs and a door (there isn't a lock on it, that we could see, but we had no issues). You can definitely hear that there are other people living downstairs, but nothing was super disruptive (voices, guitar playing, a dog barking occasionally). As for the parking situation, which has been discussed in a few reviews before this: nothing could have been easier than the parking situation here and it was a very safe neighborhood (we took our dog for walks every day in the area). Overall, this was a great place and we would definitely stay again.