Was it worth the money: Kind of yes
Would i book it again: Probably not, unless problems mentioned fixed
Would i recommend it to anyone: Nope

Mirko's place accurately matches the listing. You can book the entire place and it's yours. The price is really affordable. The wifi is good. The location of this apartment is not great, but you can walk 5-10 mins and catch a 40 min bus into central Rome.

Ok so onto the problems. Well first of all the keys into the building didn't work. A member of staff helped us in but after our first say we were locked out until someone from the other apartments let us in.

I contacted Mirko and requested a key. I wasn't informed when this would be resolved, so wasted my day staying in. Mid day someone came and gave us a new key. We tested it and it worked!

However we later found the new key also stopped working. The real problem is the lock and not the key. So day after day we were locked out until someone else would open the door from the other side.

The apartment has 2 bathrooms, 1 of them has a standing shower. This standing shower's drain was blocked when we came. A member of staff was called to fix the problem but the drain remained blocked throughout. Using this shower unknowingly would flood the bathroom.

The bigger problem was the living room/kitchen. Everyone hour or so the lights and power from this area would go off. The circuit was tripping, we again had to get help to fix this. After we were shown how to flip the circuit breaker switch back on we had to do it regularly every day.

We were not plugging in 2 or more items into the mains. The reason the circuit kept tripping was due to the heater in the living room/kitchen turning on and consuming a lot of power.

The double bed listed in one of the rooms is in fact 2 beds pushed together, which regularly separates and you wake up in the middle of the night, on the floor with 2 beds on top of you. A painful experience to say the least.

All the beds have terrible mattress's which result in back pain.

The apartment is spacious but old and dusty. The kitchen area in particular has no utensils you can use to make breakfast for example.
A lot of the cups and cutlery were really old, not looked after.

This apartment is like a mirage, it looks great from far away but on closer inspection there are a lot of issues. Issues that can be fixed.

There is no noise from other neighbours while your trying to sleep, so i guess there's that.

I think if the mentioned problems were fixed then it was be a great place to stay in the city.

I never met Mirko, instead i engaged with his staff.