The host was very responsive and polite and helpful. The apartment was very small, and not particularly nice. It was pretty run down, but not terrible. The neighborhood was really terrible. There weren't a lot of restaurants, shops, cafes, or anything cute or charming or worth seeing right in the area, and it was directly across the street from a huge mosque that had quite a few homeless people, begging all around it. They appeared to be refugees, but I don't actually know. The host said not to go the restaurant at the mosque because she had had a bad experience, so that's not particularly reassuring.