The host could not come but sent his mother who could not speak a single word of English. It eventually went fine because we had a Brazilian friend as interpreter.
This friend told us that this was a good deal in view of the price at this World Cup period.
But we were all very disapointed by the fact that the flat was not clean (to say the least) and a strong smell of dust was omnipresent. To tell the truth, if we were not on a short trip (2 days, 3 nights) in Rio we would have changed place immediately.