Timo was very polite and the pictures accurately represent the apartment. A nice, spacious size for 2 people, though the long walk-through design and lack of doors between rooms makes it less roomy and private for groups of 4. The apartment is beautifully appointed and we were greeted with bottles of wine and sparkling water, yet what we weren't aware of was the lack of privacy, stuffiness in hot weather and construction starting at 7am each weekday morning in the adjacent lot. The windows face onto a shared carpark or busy street so there is little privacy unless blinds are closed, even in the bathroom, and the front half of the apartment there are no windows you can open. As it was 31degree celsius weather, we found it incredibly hot and stuffy so we requested a fan one morning, which Timo said he would bring over that day. He didn't bring it until the following morning, which disappointed us as it was very, very hard to sleep or comfortably relax in the apartment. We didn't adore the area - it was safe and convenient (less than 100m from U-bahn), yet we felt it was peripheral city Berlin. The aorta rather than the heart. Quick walk to bakery and supermarket but we wouldn't hang out and grab coffee in the area. We preferred Torstrasse, Rosenthaler Platz and Rosa-Luxemburg Platz and found these areas to be more trendy, hip and fun.