Alberic's apartment is spacious and light-filled, located on the 7th floor of a modern building with an elevator and located close to lively streets and several Métro stations. Its large terrace has a view of the Montparnasse tower. While I appreciated these features, I have to be completely honest and warn future guests that this apartment has become grimy and rundown and no longer meets the minimum standards of cleanliness and repair that guests have a right to expect. Although it has a refrigerator and full-sized dishwasher, the kitchen cannot be described as "American," nor can one cook meals there because the combination stove/microwave is broken. The bed is uncomfortable (it seems to be a cheap and worn-out Ikea mattress). And it is not a "queen" bed by US or European standards; rather, it's a double or full-sized bed. There was no heat during a period of unusually cold September weather, and no house manual to help figure out how to operate inscrutable French appliances. The only closet provided was moldy and smelled so awful that I couldn't bring myself to hang anything in it on either of the two hangers I found there. The bathroom has a tub, but I could only use it as a shower because the tap control to run a bath didn't work, and I didn't want to take a bath because the caulking is moldy. Many of the cheap cabinets in the bathroom and kitchen are hanging off the hinges and/or missing chunks of laminate. There are plenty of dishes, utensils, and pots and pans, but they were dusty and dirty, as were most of the surfaces in the place (baseboards, door frames, light switches/fixtures/bulbs, furniture, etc.) I could go on, but you get the picture: it's a bachelor pad, but not in a good way.