We visit the house in May 2012 with mother and boyfriend. The house is nice and relatively clean. Hermina was a nice host, but she didn't spend too much time in the house because the house was full of visitors. The neighborhood is a little bit scary at the beginning but nothing bad happens there really. The Vietnamese restaurant at the corner is great! And the subway is close enough. The rooms were big and clean, and very comfortable. The only problem with our rooms was that it was very close to the bathroom and other visitors woke us up in the middle of the night when they use it. The other issue was the breakfast (that was included) the second day there was no bread, milk... that might have been also because there were lots of visitors. But overall I think is a good choice for Boston.