On the positive side it’s a spacious, bright, well equipped apartment with central a/c and access to a green back yard. It’s on a pleasant suburban street within a 10 minute walk to an excellent food store and a Walgreens store. You have access to 3 buses which run to schedule and a frequent streetcar (you can buy multiple day passes at the Walgreens). Wifi showed poor signal and cut out a few times, but mostly worked ok. John lives above, so if you need anything he’s right there. He also picked me up from the E-2 airport bus (which is only $1.50 to the corner of Carollton and Tulane).
On the other hand, unless you have a car, you pretty much have to take public transport to get to the more interesting neighborhoods further east—though there is an area called Riverbend with some restaurants about 25 minutes away by foot. The buses run every 30 or 60 minutes so you have to plan to get out in time. The buses take about 25 minutes to get downtown but run along boring main streets. The streetcar ride to downtown is scenic but 35+ minutes—takes longer because the final stretch is currently being repaired. The buses also don’t run late—though the streetcar does. Taxi at night ran about $17. I like to return for a rest in the afternoon so all the commuting got a bit tiresome. Finally, as someone else noted, locking the door is a bit tricky. Eventually I set the door to lock automatically (ask John how). Opening it was fine.
Overall a good experience, though if I’d do it again I’d pay more and find somewhere further east.