I am truly dissapointed with Alain as a host for this property. I had indicated that I would be travelling with three (3) small children to Montreal for our first time and this property was not as advertised nor was it fit and safe for a young family. The pictures are extremely misleading so future travelers please beware. There was an overwhelming smell of smoke and marijuana inside and outside the unit. The outside of the building is terribly graffitied and in disrepair as is the entrance and walk up. We arrived on a hot day and the A/C was not working. The temperature was 37 degrees Celsius and with no working A/C that just blew hot smokey air around the unit this was NOT safe for children and unacceptable. The advertisement DOES NOT indicate that there is no laundry in the unit (which was the assumption) but that there is coin laundry available in the building. Alain wanted to charge us $450 per night for this dump which is unacceptable and borderline extortion. He preyed on a new family with no familiarity with Montreal and I don't want to see this happen to anyone again. This unit is perfectly fine for young travelers or couples without kids but regardless, you need to be able to put up with a warm stench of drugs and a very warm unit in the summer. People like Alain give AirBnB a bad name and as a result, I will be very hesitant to book with them in the future as I do not want to run the risk of being manipulated again.