The good:
- Excellent location in the city with a nice view
- Apartment looks as advertised: brutalist brushed concrete with minimalist aesthetic, and the architecture of the building itself is interestingly strange
- Everything was clean and ready-to-go, apart from a couple of insects
- Owners are responsive and accommodating
Could use improvement:
- Despite what's implied by the pictures, the hot tub is for the entire building four floors down, closes at 2200h and has no privacy at all
- Furnishings are pretty cheap and haphazard: the kitchen cupboards are askew and starting to fall apart, and the living area was clearly decorated on a tight budget
- The shower gets low pressure and only tepid temperature, even though the kitchen has no issues with pressure or temperature—no hot showers
Overall: reasonable value for the money. Don't regret my stay for the price paid but I'm likely to look elsewhere the next time I'm in Montreal.