Somewhat dirty, a bit smelly, pretty noisy (you can hear everything when someone speaks or walks elsewhere in the apartment, light comes in when someone goes to the bathroom because part of the door is actually a window, you wake up during the night easily), needs maintenance (the place is a bit falling apart, e.g., some toilets don't work and are full of tape, some doors don't close/open well and people have to make a lot of noise to manage to open a door, thus waking up everyone else). The location is great, though and the price is relatively cheap. That said, I was surprised how bad the place was.