This apartment was remodeled a few years ago, and it probably was gorgeous at the time of remodeling. A few hundred rentals thereafter, however, the wear and tear show up in dramatic ways. There is virtually no sliding door that slides properly, and several windows do not shut tightly. Some appliances don’t work, and the water heater is the one item that missed the remodeling. It is probably 50 years old, a tankless device that makes controlling temperature a challenge. The furniture is in bad shape. The chairs, for example, are shedding their seat material in a constant snow show that requires periodic floor cleaning.
Internet service is poor. Every 20 minutes or so we had to disconnect our ipads, iphones, and Macs from the wifi network, quit our browsers and start all over again. Quite often even this would not work, and we had to restart the devices and/or the network modem.
The apartment location is very good, next door to a major transportation hub in Buenos Aires and with easy access to virtually every city corner. The price you pay, however, is a level of noise that is very high even for Buenos Aires standards. Particularly annoying are groups of people that gather on the street in the very early morning hours before sunrise and talk or scream extremely loudly, waking you up.
The apartment is very luminous, some rare in Buenos Aires at this price level.
The owner is an extremely nice person who helped us overcome some of the problems we encountered.