Tommaso met us at the apartment and gave us a thorough tour of the apt. He was very helpful and provided us with restaurant recommendations. In our opinion, the place was better than the pictures. The apt was very clean and had everything you needed. It is located in a much less touristy area of town which we loved. It is a couple hundred feet from a lovely square that has a market every morning with great restaurants, cafes, and gelato places. We ate in that area several times. You can walk everywhere. It took ~20 min to walk from the SMN train station with backpacks. The farthest we walked was 25-30 min to the Accademia. Having a washer and clothes line available was very helpful since we were backpacking. The apt also had an oscillating fan which helped keep us cool at night. We literally had no complaints! If we come back to Florence we would absolutely stay here again!