The stay overall was ok. The apartment is located on the ground floor with some nice garden area that connects 2 bedrooms with the kitchen and the living room. The kiched has everything you need for the long-term stay (various utensils, pans, cups, glasses, etc), there's also washer and dryer available in the laundry room.
A few drawbacks that I've noticed:
1. There's no heater in the rooms, so whenever it's cool/cold outside you'd have to use air conditioning to warm up the room. Also, during low temperature periods (and especially when it's raining) rooms become so humid that you can excpect mold appearing any minute.
2. The apartment has no windows whatsoever (although before check-in the host was saying otherwise), but the doors have very thick textured glass which allow some sunlight in.
3. Wi-fi connection wasn't very good: alright'ish at the beginning of the stay, but towards the end it became impossible to work or simply browse the pages. It was mentioned to the host, but nothing could be done.
The location is a bit far from Palermo itself, although very close to the train station (5 mins) with the train running every hour. On Sundays nearest train station is closed, so in order to get to the city you'd need to go to the nearest open one (15-20 mins by foot). There are also buses available, but they have kind of a random schedule. During the day they can be late like 15-30 mins which is not a big deal, but towards the evening you have to be super lucky to catch one at all.
There are also a few shops, cafes, bakery and small supermarket very close to the apartment itself, which is pretty convenient.
During the stay Chiara was very responsive and friendly resolving any issues very quick. Also super flexible with check-in and check-out time.
But a week after checking out, suprise-surprise, I'm receiving an email where I'm being accused of stealing towels and charged >200$ for it. And when I tried to argue that and explain that nothing was taken I was also accused of not taking proper care of the apartment and not cleaning thoroughly enough. Who knows what the host wanted to achieve by doing that, but this situation badly messed up an overall impression of the stay.