My husband and I stayed in Sara's apartment for a month and while I was taking an art course at the Florence academy of art my husband worked remotely from the apartment. We enjoyed the apartment very much. It's spacious and light. There is a very nice outside area (balcony) overlooking the gardens of the ground floor houses. The street is very quiet. The area is local/residential and within walking distance there are many nice cafe's, restaurants, shops, etc. It's an easy and nice walk to the city centre, partly along the Arno river. I have to say we enjoyed 'our' area on 'the other side' of the river (Oltrarno) more than the city centre. Because of the heat wave we did morning walks as early as 7.30 am until 10am at the latest (it would already be 30 degrees by then) and it was lovely to explore the area by foot. Our favourite places were Piazza Santo Spirito for our morning coffee and Piazza del Carmine.
We benefited a lot from the fact that Sara had just installed airconditioning in the apartment, so we could cool down whenever we got back home. Sara was available whenever I contacted her with any questions and what we really appreciated a lot was that she helped us figure out how to get a license for our car so we could park it in the street for the whole month without any problem.
All in all we really felt at home at Sara's place and would stay there again should we ever return to Florence again!