The reviews are generally spot-on; this is a beautiful, charming and spacious house on a pretty desolate block with a lot of train noise. So as long you are prepared for that, you can have a great stay. My family greatly enjoyed all the space, the thoughtful touches like board games and fully equipped kitchen, and just the comfort (everything was clean, linens well stocked, heat worked well on a chilly weekend). The location was good for us in the sense that it was very close to downtown, easy to park and drive, and also very easy to take the light rail We are a very urban family, though, and we are used to a transitional neighborhood - that's what this is. While there are clearly people living nearby who have fallen on hard times we had no issues. Our greatest discomfort was the light rail noise, which we knew would be an issue but we should have brought better earplugs. Other issue was that we found it a little challenging to deal with the technology - had to look up instructions for the dishwasher and we never got the Chromecast to work, and the host responded quickly but couldn't help with that so we had no TV. All that being said, we would stay again. It's a lovely place.