The apartment is spotlessly clean and the location really couldn't be better. Erin is very friendly, but the arrival protocols were actually very confusing and are not exactly straightforward. There are restaurants, cafes, and shops very close by, as well as the ferry to Granville Island. The flat is brightly sunny and has tremendous views. The issue is that the apartment is essentially a staged sales unit for buying a condo in the city. It is designed to look like someone lives there, but that's it. Once you stay here, the fact that no one ever has lived here becomes really clear, because it is just missing human touches like a coffee machine (there's only a Nespresso). The furniture seems to have been selected on the basis of how well it photographed. It is much smaller in person than it appears in the photos - because the photos are realtor photos that maximize space. It feels as if you are living in a room built to 7/8 scale. It is five steps from one wall to the opposite wall at the longest section of the living room, which is ABOUT nine metres square. One room is just a weird, angular thing that is too big for a closet but too silly for anything else. I say all this not because it is bad, but because when all this is taken into account, it's just overpriced.
We are not saying the listing is misrepresented - it's just represented by a realtor in the way realtors represent things. I have photos side by side of the same angle the main living room photo was taken with our two bags - a gym bag and a duffel - and suddenly the scale of the room becomes clear.