The location is great! Sweet, lovely, neighborhood close to shops and restaurants and the city. This IS a basement apartment, which means it smells like a basement (musty and damp), it sounds like a basement (footsteps overhead, heating/cooling elements clicking, etc.), it looks like a basement (ducts visible in the ceiling, corners and dark nooks you don't want to look in). Beware not to lock the front door knob! (there is no key for it, but it's OK because the kitchen window does not lock.) It's a good value for Seattle, in a really nice neighborhood, close to and easy to reach everything the city has to offer.