The apartment is nice, a little older than it looks in photos but spacious, tastefully decorated and a nice space to be in. The area is questionable, it’s probably ok but seems to have a lot of homeless people around particularly in the mornings, we went out around 8am on a weekend and it wasn’t a great crowd. In saying that there are some nice shops and cafes - we loved les 3 patats pouf. You can walk to the biodome and Maisonneuve market but most other things are harder to get to/further away. We used the metro and bus but again encountered some unsavoury people around the Joilette station.