This is an amazing place to stay if you want to experience New Orleans like a local. Ariana and her family are super nice and responsive to any needs. They live in the other side of the building, and you share a back and front porch with them so the opportunity is always there to talk. But they are never in your space unless you want them to be. There is an upstairs on their side, so there can be some noise when her children (who are awesome!) are running around, but it's nothing bad. The building itself is a "shotgun" style layout, with a front room, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath and a kitchen at the back. So to reach the kitchen you walk through all the bedrooms with no hallway so make sure you knock! The location is perfect. We didn't rent a car and never missed it. The Mississippi is just a few short blocks away and the ferry to the French Quarter and downtown is also. There is a wonderful cafe called the Tout De Suite Cafe a block away where we ate just about every morning. A taco shop called Barracuda is also about a block away. There are pubs a few more blocks away that we also frequented, all by walking. The Algiers Point ferry ran every hour to the other side of the Mississippi for $2 each way per person. The normal dock is being rebuilt (Canal Street) so they bus you from the temporary dock south of there to Canal Street.
All in all, a wonderful place to stay!