The apartment is very different than it looks in photos. Little has been done in terms of maintenance of the apartment or the furniture. I started keeping a list of all the things that were stained, broken, peeling, etc. The apartment had clearly not been cleaned in quite a while, there were dust bunnies, cobwebs, and bits of food, trash and glass on the floor. There weren’t even pillow cases on the bed when I arrived, despite the host saying that he had checked the apartment before they had arrived. Other things were also just plain annoying about the apartment: bedside tables that are too big for the space which means you couldn’t open the closet door, the closet was filled with dirty linens and pillows which I had to move to make room for my things, the light for the kitchen is literally behind the fridge, and the rear half of the bathroom is used as open storage.
The apartment is hosted by a professional agency, not an individual, and I never heard from or met the individual on the listing.