I feel a responsibility to give an honest review. First, let me say that Marco was cheerful and hospitable always.

However, on the morning of June 18th (5 days after I arrived) I discovered a rat in the apartment. It crawled into the space it had come from (a door in the wall leading to a valve) and I shut it in there. I notified Marco and suggested he call a pest service. He said there were not any. Marco came that evening and opened the door, found the hole the rat had come through, and plugged it with paper and plastic. At first I was relived. But after a couple days I was awakened in the night. I could hear the rat in the walls and above my bed in the space between my apartment and the one upstairs. I was very uncomfortable. When I told Marco this on June 24th he said that his friend would come by (Marco had gone on vacation) and bring over a Sonar to drive the rat out. His friend did come by on the 27th. But the rat was trapped by the paper and plastic that blocked it's tunnel, I could hear it in there trying to dig out. I was not about to open the door. Finally, Marco offered to give me 150E per night to stay my last 2 nights in a hotel, which I accepted. This was very gracious of him. However, I have since checked and there are pest services listed on Google, I'm not sure why he didn't know about them or look for one.

Other than that the apartment was fine. It's a good location. There is a nearby supermarket, a good restaurant, and a Vaporetto stop. It was passably clean but a bit of a bachelor pad.