Firstly, Mike's property is in a great location, reasonably close to the subway, a supermarket and lots of restaurants. The space is in the bottom two levels of a semidetached property. The basement has a bedroom and laundry, on the ground floor there is a living area behind the kitchen which serves as another bedroom. The kitchen is well equipped and the apartment was clean and tidy.
The reason that we are giving a lower score is most probably due to our own unique circumstances, but it is important information for similar groups. The apartment is represented as being large enough for 6 or 7 people and this would probably be fine for a night or two, but we were staying at the apartment for a month and Mike represented that this would be an appropriate space for our group of six, which included three young children, and it wasn't. In the listing, the apartment is listed as being sound proofed, but we could clearly hear people talking and walking around upstairs and it was communicated very early on that our children crying and moving too quickly through the property was disturbing the neighbors and Mike and his family. We had just relocated from a different continent and had very unsettled kids with none of their things in a very small space and as a result of the complaints, we were very stressed about the noise that little kids make for our whole stay. It made the entire stay uncomfortable and I wouldn't recommend the property to people with small children.
Also, the listing states that the apartment comes with cable TV. There is a cable box, but no actual TV. We asked Mike for a TV, and he brought one down but told us that the information was in the listing that there was no TV. He is right, it says no TV, but yes to cable TV, which I wrongly assumed meant there would be a TV in the apartment so you could actually watch the cable. I think this is relevant information as it would be an easy assumption to make. Mike brought a TV down from his apartment which was very kind of him.
If it was just my husband and I, I think our experience would have been very different so I think this property would be great for couples or two couples who are visiting Toronto.