Overall: Ok stay.
Pros:
1) Friendly host Albert, who lives downstairs with his wife. He arranged for an online parking permit from the city for us and also told us where to park when we arrived. Also told us where the supermarket is.
2) Nice, safe, and quiet neighborhood.
3) Supermarket (IGA) is a short walk away and is nice and well-stocked.
4) Apartment is large, airy and spacious.
5) Street parking is free, plentiful, and a very short walk from the listing.
6) Large washer and dryer which were very useful.
Some cons:
1) The location is almost an hour away from downtown Montréal, if you use public transit.
We used our car to go to downtown while we were there (about half an hour each way). That meant paying for parking in Montréal, of course.
2) The apartment construction is such that the smell of anything that the owners cook downstairs pervades the listing upstairs.
3) The kitchen is usable but is not stocked with sugar, cooking oil, tea bags and coffee.
4) The lids for the two cooking pots didn’t fit properly. The lid for the big pot had a handle whose screw was not on and hence the lid was not usable at all.