The apartment is in a phenomenal location, which somewhat outweighed the cons. The issues we had were minor, but worth being aware of.
1. Construction: there was major noise from construction on the floor right above ours. It would start at about 6 in the morning and go until about 2am—loud banging, drills, steps, yelling. Had we known this was going on, we would’ve stayed elsewhere.
2. No hot water: there is enough hot water for about 2 people to take a 5 minute shower. After that, it’s freezing cold and it doesn’t get hot until the next day. Also, if you’re taking a shower and someone else tries to take a shower at the same time in the other bathroom (or turns on the faucet or flushes a toilet) then it’s freezing cold water for everyone.
3. Wifi reaches the living room and one bedroom. The rest of the house doesn’t have internet.
4. We were given magnetic cards to get into the building. Half way through our stay, the system changed, a new one was installed, and our cards stopped working. We now needed a code to get in, which we didn’t have since we weren’t even given a heads up that this system change was happening. We were locked out for about 8 hours since we had to wait for our host to respond with the new code.