Maria is a nice person but her English is very limited. If you speak and write Italian you are golden. We were told not to lock the apartment door and there was no safe. That didn't make a single woman and her daughter feel safe. The bathroom light didn't work and the bedding to the sofa bed was not very hygienic. The kitchen is not a full kitchen so don't plan on cooking much, by who wants to in Italy anyway? :)
Location was great and the building was not as quiet as she mentions. There seems to be quite a few traveler in the building.