Massimo's apartment is nicely situated of you're looking to stay somewhere away from all of the tourism (we were)! The main drawbacks for us came in the form of no extra blankets and no kitchen towels. However, we also didn't contact Massimo to ask him for some (I'm confident he would have helped us find what we needed).
Massimo did pick us up from the train station, which would have been a wonderful introduction to Venice had it not been pouring rain! :)