ATTENTION!!!
Everything I will report here, can be confirmed by other very similar evaluations, unfortunately I didn't take the time to check them before renting the apartment.
1. "WELCOME MESSAGE". After your payment is confirmed you will receive a MESSAGE from Frederick dictating many RULES for the apartment:
A. No shoes inside the apartment
B. If you are late for the meeting with him you pay 30 euros.
C. Etc...
All very intimidating, I had the feeling he was doing me a favor to let use his apartment.
2. MEETING. When we got there for the meeting we were on time and he was the one to arrive late.
3. INSIDE THE APARTMENT he went over many more rules and procedures, and kept calling our attention: "let this door closed!", "take of your shoes!". Me and my family (2 kids, my wife and my mother in law) were very intimidated.
4. NO WIFI!!!!!
Since the first minute we got there, the WIFI was not working! (Later I found out by the neighbors that use the same internet, that it had stopped the day before) and when I asked why, he claimed the cables had been disconnected and insinuated that we were responsable for it, and kept doing it until the day we left.
We had not internet for the INTIRE WEEK and had to pay 120 EUROS to hire a rooming service on our cel phones, that he denied to give us back. The only thing he did was to suggest us to use the wifi from the Cafe downstairs (that of course doesn't work inside of the apartment).
5. The apartment is FULL OF DUST:
One of the first things Frederick will do is to ask to pay for the cleaning service (50 euros).
The apartment is filled with thousands of books that probably have never been cleaned, so be careful if you are ALLERGIC!!! My two kids woke up the next morning with several signal of allergy in their skin.
6. PROVIDE YOURSELF:
There were only 2 rolls of paper left for 5 people for a week (and we paid 1.300 euros for the apartment for a week).
7. NO BEDS!! - matress on the floor (japonese style).
8. NO PLACE FOR THE CLOTHES!! There is no place to put up the clothes because everything is locked. He will suggest you leave them in the bags on the top of the couch.
9. CHECK OUT 10:00 am!!! And even after all the trouble with the WIFI he didn't let us leave half an hour later.
10. LEAVING THE APARTMENT: Frederick came to get his keys back and checked everything in the apartment. We left it all in the exact same place we found (even with dishes washed, because one of his rules is: if you don't, you have pay extra 20 euros).
In his "inspection" he found out we used an extra blanked (that we though we were allowed to) and became very aggressive and intimidating!
Alex Guerra