The length of my stay was three months.
Pros
-Kathleen, the host, was very pleasant, helpful, and responsive. Couldn't ask for a better host.
-Location is great. Public transportation to get pretty much anywhere in downtown Toronto is very close. In addition, within 3 or 4 blocks in any direction there are a large number of bars, cafes, restaurants, shops, parks, etc.
-Private laundry
-The shower had great water pressure and very hot water
Cons
- Noise from the park and public pool across the street, some noise from neighbor on the other side of the shared wall, and I could hear thumps, bumps, footsteps, and things falling from the apartment upstairs
- WiFi - the router is located in the apartment upstairs, to which I had no access. There were times when it would go down or the router had a signal but was not receiving internet (this is aside from and excluding the Rogers outage fiasco in July) and it would have been beneficial to have had access to the router to reset it. In addition, the wifi signal is poor in the kitchen and non-existent in the patio, probably because of it being located upstairs. My tablet had some trouble with the signal, especially in the evenings, whereas it's never had a problem in other rentals when a router was located within the same apartment
- Had to deal with some midges, some ants, a couple of roaches, small moths, and some other bugs. This was an infrequent occurence and the apartment wasn't infested or anything close to that but this is my first vacation rental that had any bugs at all and I really dislike bugs
Overall, Kathleen was a great host but I was a bit disappointed with the apartment.