It is true: This is the perfect place in Santa Teresa!
First of all the apartment is situated just 5 minutes walk from the Metro Glória. You actually live on the edge of Santa Teresa, but you don't have to walk up'n'down the hill, if you are going downtown Rio. On the other hand the most interesting part of handsome Santa Teresa - the hot spot - is just 10-15 minutes walk away up the hill: Do it, it's worth the effort!
Secondly the apartment has got everything and everything is new: Well-equipped kitchen, very nice bathroom with hot shower AND A WASHINGMACHINE (great idea!). A spacious living room with television and a nice bedroom. Well-working air-condition... and a street with beautiful trees, birds and nice shadow, when you open the window in the morning.The nabourhood is calm and ok, and the building is beautiful, cool and quite charming. Also very safe, locked entrance, no worries at all.
We - my wife and I - liked this place and this area in Rio very, very much.

As a lovely bonus Marcelo (and his wife) is a perfect host: He speaks english and french fluently (quite rare for a carioca), he knows EVERYTHING about Rio de Janeiro, it's history, architecture and present life, and he is very generous with sharing of this knowledge.
Marcelo is just the kind of a nice person you become found of immediately - he helps with everything you ask for, and if you on the other hand don't need any help, he will not bother you.
We went to Rio to work on a report about the city for a magazine, and we could not have chosen a better host: Marcelo spent a lot of his sparetime driving us around the city, giving us lots of useful information and becoming "in sync" with the ambience of the city.
Thank you Marcelo, we will come back another time - back to the perfect place in Rio!