5 stars rated experience, all expectations satisfacted, by both me and my girlfriend. You can’t find anything in hotel what you cannot find in Massimiliano’s apartment, it’s clean and fully equipped with everything you need, even with house items like Iron, hair dryer etc. The apartment is on nice location, in nice neighborhood, some 10-15 minutes walk straight to the city centre and 20 minutes by bus to the main city beach. Since Palermo is big city, that’s nothing. Also market 0-24h is 5 minutes from it like couple of restaurants.
Regarding host, Massimiliano has arranged us things from private transport from airport to his apartment at low cost, to reserving a boat in Palermo, which was awesome experience. He and his friend are young men, both speak english, which is rare in Italia :), so communication was easy. We got all necessary tips for Palermo (like which bus lines to use to go to beach, which places in Sicily to visit, which local restaurants are good etc), that helped us a lot. In overall, definitely no reason to not visit this place again.