Stayed at Russ's place for about 5 days. The place is in a great location, on a bus line, in walking distance from good food etc., and even though the road is busy, traffic noise does not penetrate the space. Neighbor noises do, however (not sure who got yelled at loudly and with quite a few swear words at 6:45 one morning...).
We experienced some unfortunate inconveniences (two days no hot water, one day an alarm bleeping for two hours until a neighbor was able to turn it off), most likely not events that every AirBnB renter will experience. Hopefully we can settle this somehow. Otherwise, the place was as presented.