Ann was a gracious host--starting with our welcoming complete with locally made chocolate and a bottle of wine she personally delivered. After that she pretty much left us to our own--she did have a thorough description of the neighborhood and things to do, and offered lots of maps and information materials in the apartment (make sure you check the online guestbook for recommendations, we visited the Lighthouse coffee shop up the hill and it was great!). The location was perfect. We parked our car in the lot and were able to walk down the hill into the heart of Fremont in about 5-7minutes which was really convenient. Having friends that live in Ballard made this location convenient as well. To get downtown we used the ride share app Lyft, and the drivers were able to find us pretty easily--which made it nice to not have to worry about parking our vehicle and paying for it downtown. The apartment had everything we could have needed--and it worked really well as a home base close to everything we wanted to check out.