The location is perfect.
Walk down the hill to downtown, then Chinatown, the the historic center (in a straight line!)
Walk in the other direction into an area that might be best described as the Brooklyn of Montreal. Vintage shops, boutiques, food, drinks, coffee shops, ice cream... and hipsters galore ;)
There were random parades along our street like every afternoon, and Juliette balconies in the apartment to watch them from.
I think there was a street party every weekend night on the perpendicular pedestrian street to ours.
A Public parking lot is directly adjacent (we parked once, and walked everywhere).
And the apartment was clean and exactly as shown in the pictures.