Philip is a great person and have helped us since the first try to contact him, always answering questions REALLY QUICK he won't let you be in doubt or without support anytime.
The apartment is awesome, everything is very good and clean. You can get scared with all the violence we have seen in the news related to Rio de Janeiro, although at the day we arrived there was a policy car parked just in front of the building and on the other days there was always policies going around the blocks and parked in the corner of the block.
The apartment is really close to everything you need, such as supermarket, stores, restaurants, beach (two blocks down). All touristic points in Rio are reachable really easily (we have used Uber and the trips didn't take more than 30 reais - less than 10 dollars).
I hope to visit Rio once again, to visit some more places we couldn't this time, I am sure we are going to look for Philips' apartment when the time comes.