My wife and I stayed for 2 weeks in Allen's apartment and it was really great! This was our first visit to Vancouver and we wanted a nice apartment, at good value, in a nice neighbourhood with good public transit connections - we got it. Allen's apartment is exactly this. Allen met us as agreed, he's a very knowledgeable, pleasant helpful guy, and gave us a complete rundown on facilities and utilities. He gave us a lot of really useful local information and he has a file of leaflets, flyers, maps, guides - you don't really need to visit the Tourist Centre, it's all there.
In terms of the apartment it has everything. Firstly, a full kitchen with full cooker and huge fridge/freezer, so you don't have to always eat out or take-away. There's a comfy lounge with sofa bed and TV, dining table, and in the bathroom there's a full bath tub! The bedroom has a massive incredibly comfortable super king size bed, you'll sleep like a baby. We found the heating was great for mid November.
Allen's place is in a very nice quiet residential area right near 41st Avenue so it's easy to catch Transit buses to get downtown or you can travel 5 or 6 stops on the bus and to get to the Skytrain station and be at the Waterfront downtown in 10 minutes.
So all in all highly recommended, a great place to stay, great value and if we're back in East Van we'll definitely stay with Allen!