The ad:
This apartment is misleadingly advertised as though it's the apartment of an individual, when in reality it's managed by a company called Adam Suites. I learned this after I booked the apartment and started receiving automated emails and text messages from them. I wrote to Kate about this and she stopped responding to my messages on Airbnb.
Instead, one of her colleagues started contacting me over text message. It was only after I got Airbnb customer support involved and they threatened her with canceling the reservation that she wrote back the day before I was supposed to arrive, claiming that she hadn't received my messages. I never met Kate once the entire time, nor would she meet me at the apartment with the keys as is advertised in the listing. Instead, I had to go to the hotel 15 minutes away to pick up the keys and I dealt with someone at their reception. My advice is to be honest, say it's managed by a hotel, and don't say you'll meet guests at the apartment if you're not going to.
The place:
The location is very good. It faces the street so there's a fair amount of street noise. The entranceway when you first enter off the street is pretty dirty and shabby. It's up a lot of very steep flights of stairs (this is common in Amsterdam). The apartment was pretty clean and the bed was comfortable. The bathroom was the main issue—it reeked of sulphur (really bad smell like rotten eggs) so I had to keep the door shut. Also, the shower drain was backed up and a large piece of the tile at the base of the shower was missing, exposing raw wood. Some of the window blinds were broken and it's not easy to pull them all down. I didn't contact Kate or whomever actually manages this listing about these issues because of the horrible communication I'd had with them already before I even arrived. All in all, I think it's overpriced for what it is.