Fabio was a great host with good communication. He was responsive to my messages and welcomed us with a very useful map of Rome and a bottle of wine on the first day. He speaks English very well and seemed happy to see us the two times we saw him. There was an issue with the A/C box one day, and he hopped on it when we brought it to his attention.
The apartment is as described and as is shown in the pictures. The place was clean and cool, and it is a garden apartment. It was nice to have a small kitchen with a skillet and enough dishes for a breakfast or a snack. Th bathroom was also clean and a good size for a week's stay.
There are a couple things that are not described that I would like to advise to future guests. 1. The bed is extra extra firm. Both my boyfriend and I had stiff backs and necks in the mornings from it, but maybe some like the feeling of sleeping on something hard. 2. The neighborhood is not so nice. Esquilino has graffiti everywhere; the two almost always closed Asian shops on either side of the apartment are covered with graffiti. The nearby park is questionable at night; people shouted after us as we walked through one time getting to the train. I have never been to Rome and was just looking for a place close to Termini. While the convinience was nice, it would have been more worth it to stay in a nicer neighborhood. Also about the surroundings, there are large dumpsters for the whole complex in the main open hallway on the way to the apartment, so you have to get used to that every time you go in and out. They were overfilled with garbage 3 out of the 6 days we were there.