The apartment itself is very nice—unique layout with everything you need and plenty of space. There’s even a little backyard where you can sit around a small round table. The central AC helped during the summer heat. Unfortunately, the neighborhood is quite sketchy. On our first day we witnessed an exchange of drugs for money across the street, and on our first night our car was broken into. The parking space that comes with the apartment is located in the back, accessible via a kind of alleyway and we were woken up at 3 am when our car alarm went off. My sunglasses were stolen and the thief had propped up a deck chair (apparently taken from a nearby yard) to try to reach the roofbin on top of our car. He seemed to have ran off when the alarm system was activated. We stayed awake for the rest of the night to make sure no one returned with better equipment to get into the roofbin and since we didn’t feel safe staying for another night we decided to leave the next day. I sent a message to the host explaining what had happened during that very night, shortly after 3am. Alas, the host and the AirBnB “mediator” cast doubt on my story because I had no “proof”, despite having notified he host as soon as the break-in had taken place in the middle of the night. The host did express how sorry she was that this happened, but only in a cursory fashion and then only agreed to refund us for half of the price of the unused night. In sum, the place itself is great, but the neighborhood is unsafe and when I return to Montreal I will make sure to never rent in the South-West/Griffintown area again (we had our two small children with us, so it’s just not a good neighborhood for families). Note that you also play an extra $15 for the parking space in the back—not a good deal, take it from me.