If your expectations are appropriate this is a great place. This is not a spotless professionally managed apartment or a exquisitely renovated attic unit that is used to generate money for the owners. It’s an actual apartment that someone lives in, and it feels like that and the price reflects this.
This is a place to experience the city. It has all the typical features of Berlin apartments rolled into one: 12 foot ceilings, double layers of windows, the tiny toilet closets and enormous tile bathing rooms, and the crazy layout resulting from 100 plus years of combining and dividing up apartments into larger and smaller units. There is both privacy (quiet courtyard, no noise at night) and a sense of life (the children in the playground next door, the young travelers at the hostel nearby).
Moabit isn’t perfectly groomed Prenzlauerberg or buzzy Kreutzberg. It’s more down to earth. And very convenient especially if you bike.
Things to do while staying here:
1) try to find the Garden Gnome
2) Read the reviews of Moabit prison on google maps
3) Go to the spa in the park
4) ride your bike along the Spree
5) Skype into work from the Dining room— scarlet and gold wallpaper, gold ceiling and crystal chandelier—your colleagues will never see you quite the same way again.