I was extremely disappointed in this flat. I had planned to spend two months there, but ended up leaving after just one night because of a number of issues, that I will address in a moment. Let me, however, start with the positive. The location is great. It's close to both Mt. Royal and Downtown Montreal, with several grocery stores at walking distance, and plenty of food, bars, coffeeshops and other good stuff nearby. Now on to the negative(s). The moment I walked in, I noticed a very strong smell of mold, that could easily be traced to the clear signs of water damage on the ceiling, where presumable my upstairs neighbor's shower pipes had or were still leaking. While the leak might have been fixed (don't know. I didn't stick around to find out), the resulting mold was most certainly still there, making it not just uncomfortable, but also unhealthy to spend much time there. The rest of the apartment was also in a sorry state. You couldn't see through the windows, one of which was home to a very loud airco unit (right next to the bed), with the remaining hole poorly closed of with a fiberboard and ductape. The place had also clearly not been cleaned (which the host later also admitted). Many kitchen utensils were greasy, the oven was an absolute mess and I found a bunch of hairs of the previous owner in the drawers. The irons on top of the gas furnace were hot enough to burn yourself on while the device hadn't been used, and when I reported this, the host brushed of my concerns. Having owned a gas furnace myself, I am well aware that there are pilot lights inside to burn off any small traces of escaping gas, but under no circumstance should they produce this amount of heat. Additionally, I was promised high speed internet, which is absolutely essential for me to be able to work, but I couldn't connect to the router on my desk for some reason. The host put me on a different network, but the connection was so bad that I could barely even send out an email. Luckily I had bought a sim card with mobile data at the airport. Otherwise I would have been pretty much devoid of communication, given that I arrived from Europe and my provider does not offer roaming in Canada. Finally, with regard to my communication with the host. Samuel was very quick to respond, but his responses did not actually address most of the concerns I raised, and to me it felt like he was not willing to take responsibility for the unacceptable state I had found the flat in. The few promises he did make me (cleaning the room, fixing the wifi and giving me a different flat) were not actually fulfilled, and the day after my arrival, I felt like I had no choice but to take my things, get out of there and figure out some alternative accommodation on the fly. At that point, I had already contacted and informed AirBnb of the situation, and their customer support team helped me get a nearly full refund, for which I will be ever grateful. Before booking this flat, I had read a lot of Samuel's reviews, which were mostly positive, so it is possible that I was just very unlucky, but I for one will not be staying at any of his apartments again, and based on this experience, I wouldn't recommend anyone else doing so either.