Mother and 12 year old son stayed at Rhondas house for eight days. We really enjoyed ourselves :-) The apartment is spacious, private and clean! The living area is bigger then it seems on the pictures. The bathroom is super! Seems newly renovated with a large shower. Plenty of warm water as well :-) Internet is really good and fast!!! We streamed films without any problems. The surrounding area also felt safe and we were never worried to walk anywhere even when we came home a bit late sometimes. 10 minutes walk to a large grocery store.
The place is close to LIRR (long island railway) trains, and they will take you to Manhattan in 25 - 30 minutes. If you stay for as long as we did, it will however get quite expensive to take the train every day (7,5 - 10 $ per person one way on weekdays). Instead we bought a metrocard giving us unlimited travel on buses and subways. The bus stop is even closer than LIRR and the busses go very frequently. I strongly recommend the app "Mytransit". It has schedules (bus and subway), interactive maps of busstops and a "trip planner" that gives recommendations on how to get from one place to another. The bus will take about 20 minutes to Jamaica subway station, and the subway will take 40 minutes to Manhattan. A bit longer than the train, but inexpensive and hassle-free. We never waited for more than five minutes on any bus or subway. It is also an advantage to be able to take the subway "back and forth" on Manhattan without extra cost ;-)
Rhonda herself is great!! Gave us our privacy, but also very friendly and helpful where we had any questions. Superquick response to any inquiry! We would gladly stay here again :-D