As a host, Joan is as good as it gets. We cannot recommend her enough. She was incredibly flexible (both with the check-in and the check-out process), generous (the bagels others have mentioned is only one detail), sensitive (our concern about sharing the house with Joan's family became immediately irrelevant), caring without being intrusive, and always available to provide anything or any advice we needed.
The place is actually better than what the pictures show. We want to point out two important features we had not noticed before arriving: (1) the hallway that connects the bedroom, on one side, and the kitchen and bathroom on the other, which makes the space feel much bigger, and isolates the kitchen and bathroom noises from the bedroom; and (2) the backyard, to which there is a direct access from the kitchen, which adds as many possibilities as one can imagine a big, nice, sunny and quiet backyard can add to the experience.