Cheap DC Intern Housing

Due to some unnecessary behaviors of the owner of this place towards me, I would not recommend it as one of the better options for housing.
I experienced three different people moving out of my house because they were tired of being the owner’s assistant — it would much more than they bargained for.
My roommate told me that the owner even said some negative things about me, just because I pointed out my rights as a lessee. The owner certainly had favorites too — she especially liked if the tenants were male and flirtatious with her!
One of my most distinct memories was having put some clean laundry in the room next door to fold. Early in the morning, a mysterious maid came to the house, went into that basement room, and locked the door. I tried to get the sheets out by knocking on the door, but the maid became silent and pretended she wasn’t there. She then left through an alternative exit, taking the sheets with her. Just very strange, uncomfortable stuff!

There were concepts implemented in this business that showed the intention for good business, but this place was kind of a joke.
THE GOOD:
— Affordable, near the metro
— Depending on how things worked out, would sometimes get good roommates
THE BAD:
— Rooms are tiny or shared, carpet is dirty, very low budget.
— The landlord likes to assign a member of the house as her assistant, in exchange for knocking a few $ 100 of the rent. This assistant always ended up doing much more than just watching over the house — they became the landlord’s personal assistant (even picking up her dry cleaning, becoming her gossip pal about other people in the house, etc.). Really, just making it an unprofessional, pressured situation — I mean, who wants to give up less rent at the risk of being rude to this woman?
— The landlord, her mother, or some other assistant would stop by the house without warning in the middle of the night. They claimed they would always give warning, but I guess they figured they could get away with entering the house when they thought we were asleep. Once, the door was left unlocked all night because of this.
— Very unprofessional, rude landlord — would actually say rude things about the people renting from her to her assistant — of course word carried back to the house.
— As you would expect, there were mice.