I had read numerous reviews on this property before booking it. I saw repeatedly two problems. The first was lack of communication with the host, and the second was the shower. I thought I could stay on top of the communication, and handle that one, and I thought how bad could the shower be? LOL
First let me say, this is a clean apartment. It is safe and centrally located. When you rent this on Airbnb, it will tell you the address is 4336 Fuseri . It really is 4335A. The host had messaged me once. He gave me instructions to meet him in a square near the property. Tobia did not show up in the square near the house where he told us to meet him. I had seen other guests give the correct address because they had similar trouble, so I knew I had the right address. We looked for the address an hour after we had found the street. Fuseri was the street, but you had to take a side street and find the door on the back side of the buildings. We found it finally, and no one answered the door. I dialed him and he said he was out of town. So, he called and sent his house keeper to let us in. She did not speak a word of English, and did not believe me when I said we did not understand Italian. (I said it in Italian.) She talked and talked and was VERY specific about numerous things that we did not understand, but Len shook his head yes and smiled and she finally left. A couple days later, the power in the lights went out. We messaged Tobia. Again he sent the house keeper. She talked and talked and tried light bulbs for almost two hours. I tried to use a translator app to tell her we thought it was a breaker or fuse, but she wasn't having any thing of that! Tobia finally showed up and in a second he tripped the breaker and lights worked again. Communication is a big deal in this property. I had read numerous other guests tell of the difficulty, but I thought I could just be proactive and handle it. I was wrong!
The other issue was the shower. Let me be clear. It is not a shower. You are sitting in a bath tub with a hand held shower head. If that is ok with you, then Ok. There is no showering. The shower head hangs on the wall, true, but in a bath tub with no shower curtain, no wall, nothing. You shower and the cabinetry and whole room will be wet. You need to sit in the tub.
Besides that, we were comfortable. Walking distance to most sites and shopping. In the moment we met Tobia, he seemed nice and we had wished our first day to get acquainted with Italy would have been in English.