This apartment is very pretty, and very clean inside. However, the outside stairway and door entrance are like a slum/crack house appearance. There is about four decades of grime along the bottom of the stairway hallways, the paint in the hallway is very old and chipped (old lead paint?), and the outside entrance doorway that you come in looks like the entrance to the poorest of the poorhouses, the one you have to go to because the main poorhouse rejected you. There is a GRAVE DANGER in this apartment, because they ask all the tenants in the building to lock the front building entrance door with the key and bolt, but once you do so, THERE IS NO WAY THAT A PERSON LOCATED INSIDE THE BUILDING ON THE STAIRWAY CAN GET OUT OF THE BUILDING WITHOUT HAVING THE KEY WITH THEM AND KNOWING HOW TO USE IT IN THE DARK AND SMOKE. That means if you step out for a coffee with your only key, your roommate inside of the apartment will have NO WAY TO ESCAPE in case of a fire. This is a VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. Also, the electrical system had some fault in it, and the main breaker kept kicking off, but the main breaker is located in the apartment below you where you don't have access to it. That means that if the breaker kicks off, you either have to depend on the kindness of strangers (assuming the apartment below even has a tenant present) , or you have to hope that you can reach Laura and that she can come save your sorry ass. Good luck with that if it's late at night. Oh, and by the way, the apartment entrance lock is electric, so if the power kicks off while you are away and you didn't know about it, and you come back later at night, you will have no way to get back into your apartment because the apartment door lock requires electricity and has no back up. Laura had to reset the breaker twice during our stay--once when we had just arrived, and another time when we were out of the apartment. And this was only a two day stay! Laura said it was a ground fault interrupt problem, and her solution seems to be to keep resetting the breaker, rather than calling an expensive licensed electrician to find out what is the dangerous wiring condition that is causing the ground fault interrupter to activate. Both these dangerous situations, the trapped-inside-in-case-of-fire situation, and the unsolved ground fault interrupt problem which likely indicates defective wiring, make renting this apartment prohibitive. Nobody should rent this apartment until the landlord has resolved these two issues, and the apartment has passed both electrical and fire inspections, which I assure you that now it would not. Now if you can live with the grimy, dark, stairway and slum door outside entrance, that's up to you. But on the good side, the apartment was beautiful inside, and Laura is tardy but very nice (enough to make up for the tardiness). Still, inside there is no place to open your luggage, no soap dish in the shower, no electric coffee maker in the kitchen (shouldn't that be a basic item for any airbnb?), and an uncomfortable to sit on fold-out couch in the living room. Also, I rented in winter, and the heating systems did not work properly, (no hot air coming out of the vent) and we were cold throughout our stay. Since the heater is also the air conditioner (one of those dual mode split units), I would not hold my breath for good air conditioning in the summer. Location is good and quaint, and on the periphery of the noisiest part of Trastevere, which is good, but you do have to walk a good five long city blocks to reach public transportation. If you're a long distance walker, though, you can walk straight across the bridge and be right downtown quickly. Anyway, best of luck to you on your trip to Rome!