We stayed in the apartment for four weeks. The price was relatively high, but it's in Paris, so we compared it with others, and accepted it. Upon renting it, we got a message from Maxime that a management company takes care of it for him. The company's representative, Jean Christophe, was to be responsible while we were there, so we never met Maxime.
There are some great things to be said about this apartment, but basically it did not meet our expectations. Some of the great things:
1) we loved the neighborhood,
2) shower had great pressure and worked well,
3) the wifi connection worked well, and this is important to us,
4) the washer worked well.
Here are some key areas that didn't meet our expectations:
1) The apartment is directly over a Korean restaurant and the garbage room for the building and restaurant, so it's a little noisy from the restaurant, and a lot noisy from the garbage area when things are disposed of in the night and early morning.
2) The overall condition of the apartment needs some work - the floors have soft spots that feel they might break through, the few dishes and cups are mostly cracked and overused, there are no drinking glasses, only a couple cups, a couple fry pans with the nonstick coating peeling off, etc.
3) We asked midway through our four-week stay for more towels and linens so we could wash ourselves the ones we had, and have new ones while the old ones were drying. We were promised them on Friday, but they were not delivered until Monday, and then with just the extra towels and no linens.
4) The apartment came with very little - no shampoo as listed, one roll of toilet paper, few condiments as advertised. We were staying four weeks, and planned to replace most of these things anyway, but the near absence of almost all these things was surprising.
5) Although the washer worked well, when we went to set up the drying rack, we found only one piece to hold up the arms of the rack. We rummaged around, found some screws and some tape to make it work, but this shouldn't the way it's done.
6) the apartment definitely was not as clean as we would have expected. We washed the dishes before using them and cleaned up -- it should have been in better shape when we left it than when we got it.
This apartment might work better for a short stay, a great place to crash while seeing the city, as opposed to an extended stay and place to live. Whereas we enjoyed certain aspects of the apartment, we would find another place for our next trip to Paris.