Whilst the location of the apartment is great , there’s quite a few things that could definitely should have been addressed.
No where on the listing does it mention that including the front steps up into the building that the unit is up 4 flights of stairs and there is not a lift .
The building is an older build ( quite surprisingly in Christchurch) and the first thing notice is the smell- it is really,really bad in the stairwell.
I’d say it’s a mix of mouldy carpets and the fact no air gets in as all the windows are in openable obviously due to security- you can actually see mould on a couple of the stairs walking up.
Entering the unit it had that same musty , unpleasant odour - but luckily with some airing out , and windows opened it dissipated.
For the first two nights there was night works outside from dusk till dawn , which I’m astonished I was not made aware of ( heavy duty earplugs were in order!), there is major construction that starts at 7am too .