Great neighbourhood. Cool design of the space. Amazing shower temperature and pressure. The host did his best to be helpful. With that said, my month and a half stay was filled with several inconveniences including broken items (mirror, towel rack, floor panel) at check-in that I tried to overlook but was the smoke leading to the eventual issues including a two-burner stove that could only be used one burner at a time (info that was left out of the listing and only shared with me AFTER my fridge/oven/ microwave all fused out leaving me without the ability to even make a cup of soup after work at 1 am), noisy renovations upstairs (which could have been mentioned in the listing out of consideration), and an unfortunate septic tank smell that led to a repair of the tank lid during my stay. Wifi was down 5 separate times which did not work for me as a day trader who works from home. I'm sure all the following stays after me will be flawless as my month and a half stay was pretty much full of repairs. The studio, though deigned in a cool and interesting way, has clearly been constructed in a rush and does not exemplify the AirBNB standard that I have in mind when booking with confidence. The host seemed to have a hard time understanding that no matter how responsive or kind you are personality wise... business is business and " a few unfortunate inconveniences" that add up over time is unacceptable no matter how good of a "bargain" (the host's words) the listing is priced at for it's respective neighbourhood. Kudos to AirBnb for rectifying the situation in the form of a refund as my host has yet to respond to my refund request directly, as promised.
Wishing JP and Marc-Antoine the best in their future hospitality ventures.