We are a middle-age couple with extensive travel experience. The location of Dave's place was fine - easy to access taxi, bus, and subway. During the day things are busy in the area, but after dark most things shut down and it gets very quiet - we didn't feel totally safe walking around too much on foot - we suggest doing taxis. The apartment itself was quiet and felt safe and secure. Dave lives right next door and responded to any issues that came up. As for the apartment itself - we can do funky, we can do simple, we can do old. What we won't do is dirty. We found the apartment dark and grubby. We weren't sure if sheets and towels were clean. Rugs and couch were dirty. Pillows could not actually be considered pillows. Bad lighting throughout the apartment. Part of budget travel is cooking at home, but the kitchen didn't look appealing - tools were either missing or dirty or looked so old that they should be thrown away. No microwave. Water issues make it so the first person has a nice shower and the second person gets scalded. The apartment definitely has potential, but in the state it's in now, we were disappointed and would have moved had we not been flying back home in a couple days.