This is a "maximum profit" apartment: cheap quality sold at high prices. In more detail: unbelievably cheap and uncomfortable mattresses with partially broken slatted frames, uncomfy sofa, musty smelling towels, silverfish in the bathroom, squeaking doors, recycled kitchen furniture, kitchen table gives you splinters, the table's board is free-floating on a smaller table underneath. Plus minor but annoying things like no drying basket for dishes, lack of glasses and plates, curtains that hardly get the room dark, and unstable wifi.
For the convenient downtown location and Marls' friendly welcome, however, a second star is well deserved.