I try to be as fair and objective as I can with my review. Mostly, my stay was nice. I’m going to just list all pros and cons of Alice place.
Pros:
1) The house is nice, located close to 3-4 metro stations from where you can reach any place in Paris.
2) Alice was nice to explain everything. Her flatmates 70% of my stay were not there at the apartment, they’ve been traveling. So mostly I was living alone in the apartment.
Cons:
1) The district is a bit strange because there’re lots of guys, mostly male-dominated district, especially when you go under the bridge to the Monoprix market or other store to do groceries it’s full of men. Sometimes I didn’t feel safe after 7 pm but fortunately didn’t happen anything criminal to me. Alice and her flatmates said that during their 6 years of living there nothing criminal happened to them. But be aware they’re lots of men in that area.
2) On the ground floor of the building is an Indian bistro, when they start to cook at 7 am in the morning you can fill the smell of fried food and it’s going to come even till the 11 pm at night till the time they close. Even the apartment located on the 4th floor, the smell gonna come inside if you sleep with an open window. Since it was august, I was sleeping with an open window, so the constant smell of fried food was especially in the morning after 7 am and around evening time from 9 to 11 pm.
3) I booked the room for 31 days, for 1 month. So I expected that I’m going to have in my room a cupboard/shelves to put and hang my clothing and put some of my books. There’s an open shelf system on the all but it’s full of clothing of Alice, her shoes, and stuff. She emptied two small lower shelves but it would be okay for the person who stays in that room for 3-4 days, max 1 week. But when you stay a month you need more space to hang and put clothing, unfortunately, I felt myself living in a Couchsurfing place when the host allows you to stay in their room. So it was the same, I was living in Alice's room full of her clothing and stuff, where I couldn’t put my and I paid for that room 902 USD for 1 month. Paris is expensive, I could find something better but it would be more expensive. But anyway when you rent a room for 1 month you expect to have enough space for your clothing and be provided with extra bed sheets in case you want to wash it after 2 weeks.
4) The kitchen of the apartment needs a renovation, it’s old and there are moths (flying insects) coming from food shelves. The moths I constantly have found in my oatmeal and bread, if I left open the package. Some door of shelves were broken, if I want to take a pan from the shelf the door would fall off. I was not provided with a space on a shelf to put my food, only in the refrigerator. So I had to keep the food somewhere on the surface of kitchen shelves and on the table. There’s no microwave in the kitchen, you need to warm food on a pan if you need. And another annoying problem was when Alice’s flatmate doesn’t bother herself to wash dishes during 4-5 days, and it’s kept piling and was full of both sinks. It’s annoying. Alice told me it’s Parisian and their way of living, but when you share a kitchen with others you should clean the workspace after you, so another person can come and prepare their food. So, when her messy flatmate was in the house I tried to order food home. Also, the refrigerator stinks. So many little things, and it accumulates all this uncomfortableness, it’s made my living not that enjoyable.
5) The washing machine works with small issues, if you want to wash your clothes the water comes under and you should put a towel so the water won’t be all over the floor. It’s their system to deal with broken washing machine.
Again, the apartment is nice. But I couldn’t stay for a whole month, and when there left 5 days I asked Alice if she can do the refund for me for 5 nights and I want to check out earlier. She first agreed and then changed her mind. So, I didn’t wait till the end of 31 days, I checked out 4 nights earlier and just found a better place even I had to pay more. In the end, I would only recommend renting Alice's place for 3-4 days and not a day more. Alice herself is a nice person, she tries to help and be patient. Her one flatmate nice and clean person, the second flatmate is nice too but unfortunately messy.