Location is fantastic as it’s near to tram stops and the train station. It’s very happening all the time with a lot of great food places just a few minutes’ walk away. It’s also near to the Coles/Woolworths.
The downsides were that it’s a really dim apartment. As students who have stayed for 3 months here, it was really troublesome as we couldn’t study at all with the lighting. We informed Stephen about it and he was pretty strict with the “no add-ons” rule but provided us with a bedside lamp that didn’t really solve our problem.
There were no restrictions as to the duration we’re allowed to turn on the heaters, which was great. The apartment comes with all the amenities listed but they’re somehow not well-maintained. Over the 3 months of our stay, the heater, stove, oven, several lights malfunctioned. Although Stephen and Lin were kind enough to ask if we’ve encountered problems with the amenities, it’s rather troublesome and inconvenient to get those fixed when they broke down one at a time at different times.
We were also quite offended when:
1. Lin misread a message I had sent her and she thought that there were 8 of us staying in the apartment, and had rushed up to the apartment immediately to check up on the number of guests that occupied the apartment. We’ve adhered to the rule of having 4 guests max at all times.
2. Stephen made a statement where he had just assumed we were all from China just because we’re Chinese. It was a culturally insensitive move.