Katie is a very pleasant and helpful host, very responsive to requests. Prospective guests should be aware that although this is a separate apartment, it is part of a shared building with a downstairs apartment where the host lives. There is a single thermostat shared between the units and it is locked and can be only be set by the host. The laundry is shared with the downstairs apartment, although the preference for use is given to the guest and the hot will always communicate before using. There is a dehumidifier in the open stairwell that is somewhat noisy and runs day and night. The host is always willing to help with any needs you have but it appeared to us that we had to have more interaction with the host than we would have liked in order to meet our basic needs for an accommodation. The location is good. This was our first time in Asheville and our expectation was that it was more of a walkable community than it is. Downtown is about a mile away and things are pretty spread out once there. Similarly with the River Arts District which was another area that attracted us: it’s a half mile in the other direction from the apartment and is spread out over a mile of small clusters of studios and some of the streets there do not have sidewalks.