I really loved staying at Arnaud's place overall. Check-in was both thorough and straightforward, especially for someone that's not local to Montreal, and I found the apartment to be extremely ideal as a physical unit: bright and sunny; clean and comfortable and spacious enough for certainly one person, and could likely comfortably fit 2-3 people. Hochelaga, the area where the apartment is located, is in high transition as a gentrifying area; there were a lot of familiar tensions for me as someone that's lived and visited gentrified cities. Because of that, for some people, your comfort about the surrounding block/n'hood might vary; while literally no one bothered me, I think some people might be turned off by the optics of the area. That being said, I never felt unsafe, the people in the area, regardless of circumstance, are people all the same, and I'd gladly stay in Hochelaga and this apartment again.