Given that I stayed at an average place in Montreal before visiting Quebec, I was surprised by how clean and welcoming Alex's place was.
The best thing was the ceiling had some sort of window that would draw in so much light during the day that you'd think the lights were on.
Everything was clean and just like we expected.
The only downsides were the windows that you couldn't close because of the air conditioning device in the window - it wasn't properly installed so there was a large gap that would let the noise from the quite busy street into the apartment - I will have nightmares of the buses climbing that hill.
If you could do something about the window, that would be indeed the perfect place.