The apartment is quiet and spacious and Ben was friendly and helpful. However, checking in was a bit of a fiasco because he wasn't there when we arrived at the apartment, despite saying he would be. We had given him a 30min window in which we expected to arrive and he said he'd be there. Unbeknownst to us, he expected us to call him, which we eventually did after we'd waited awhile and then figured out how to activate the roaming function on our phones because we had no internet connection. He did get to the apartment 25min later.
The apartment wasn't clean or tidy when we walked in, which was an unpleasant surprise for us especially after a long journey. For examples, the kitchen counters/stove area were stained and grimey, and there was even a load of dirty dishes in the dishwasher; generally most surfaces, especially floors were dirty or just dusty, and some surfaces clearly hadn't been cleaned in months; there was no vacuum cleaner, so we mopped everything over twice but the sheer volume of dust, miscellaneous debris/ hair etc - things only a vacuum cleaner can pick up - made it impossible to get the floors clean. Ben did provide a vacuum cleaner a few days later. Also when we arrived, the beds were bare - bedsheets and covers were left draped over furniture for drying , towels were piled unfolded in the cupboards prompting us to wonder if they were clean.
The apartment was also very cold to sleep when we first arrived (16C to 19C in the bedrooms and livingrooms). Ben said that there was a problem with the building's heating system so we wouldn't have any heating until the end of Oct (more than 3 weeks later). When we left on 5 November there was still no heating in the bedrooms, only the living room and bathroom. Heating was advertised as included with the apartment but Ben declined to provide a heater, claiming that it was a normal indoor temperature for locals and suggested we leave if we didn't like it, so we procured a heater ourselves which made our stay a lot more comfortable.
I did test out a new pull up bar under a doorway which surprisingly scraped a little paint off the walls at each end of the bar, which I apologised for. It wasn't supposed to do that.
Separately, Ben thought that we had damaged the bathtub drainage stopper because it was hanging loose from it's socket, but we hadn't - it was already loose and coming out when we arrived and we had no reason to touch it during our stay because we only ever take showers and never baths.
The rest of our stay was uneventful and comfortable, and the location is undeniably good, so if one isn't fussed about cleanliness and the heating system is functioning, this could be a good option.