The place is a nice apartment with everything you need and internally true to what we imagine is the New Orleans feel of an old shotgun home. Kelsey was also a great host offering suggestions for where to go to hear some great music.
The location is within walking distance to the French Quarter and the various jazz clubs and bars on the lower part of Frenchmen St. However, the location of the apartment itself is in a run down neighborhood which has a reputation for not being particularly safe. We had a few comments from a number of Uber drivers to this effect, including on our trip from the airport that ‘some drivers would have left you at the airport when you said you were coming here.’ As a result, we did not feel comfortable walking around the neighborhood (even during the day), but instead took Ubers to where we wanted to go. This was fine, relatively cheap, and meant we spent more time exploring the parts of the city we wanted to. We never were directly confronted with a situation which was unsafe, but the comments from the locals concerned us and certainly put a dampener on our first night in town (after that, the shock factor was gone, and we were conscious of where we were staying). On the whole, we think the location is fine provided you are sensible, but nonetheless think that guests should at least be aware of the location they are electing to stay in.