The location os this apartment is good -- on the northwest side of Venice. There is a Vapareto stop not too far from it, and a Supermarket very close to it. And it is in an otherwise least crowded part of Venice.
The host was somewhat inattentive. There were many issues with the place, and from what I read in the reviews from people who stayed there during the past month, none of the problems were new. AC did not work. No hot water until a technician came on the 2nd morning to fix the heater. The kitchen oven would not turn on, and the host said that he had never used it himself and no one else had complained, so it must be that I did not know how to turn it on!
We were also forced to pay 20 Euros a day of some tax (4.00 per person per day, and there were 5 of us) upfront and in cash. This was not mentioned in the listing, and hence a huge surprise for us.