This is a decent budget apartment in an excellent location - despite being in the heart of the Shida Night Market, with tons of restaurants and food stalls, it's entirely quiet at night. Safe and friendly neighbours, lots of nearby parks and public transit options, excellent washer/dryer, large fridge and working stove. Modern air conditioning in every room. Screens on most windows (but mosquitos still get in, unfortunately). The two beds are quite hard (like many in Taiwan) but OK. In our opinion, the apartment is not as handsome or spacious as it appears in the photos. It's quite small and a little run down - lots of decorations and furnishings appear to have been removed. The balcony is tiny. Despite listing "the Necessities" as available, apartment lacked many of these - at least for a one-month stay like ours. We spent about $40 CAD to purchase necessary apartment items like cutlery, glasses, bath mat, more paper towel/bathroom tissue, etc. (Lisa did provide lots of laundry detergent and some toilet paper.) For winter, apartment could use some extra blankets (there were none). Some of the bigger issues: 1. Garbage/recycling. This is very complicated in Taipei, and host did not leave us any instructions. When I emailed to ask, she gave it a bit more details but I still had to talk to several locals and do internet research to understand the complicated recycling/garbage sorting system, and to figure out how to buy the special, blue, state-manufactured garbage bags. On garbage days, we had to be sure to be at home around 6:45 to take our trash to a park around the corner for delivery to the trucks. 2. Drinking water. Although there's a filter on the sink, host was vague about whether we could trust its quality. This was not reassuring, so we purchased bottled water for the entire stay. 3. Cleaning. Although the listing stated that a cleaner would come every 3 days, this wasn't true - Lisa was surprised when I mentioned this, and had forgotten writing it in the listing. Instead, she said "please let me know if you need cleaning". It felt awkward to be overly demanding, so we ended up asking for cleaning once during our one-month stay. The cleaner came while we were out, did wash the floors etc but did not appear to wash the sinks or other countertops - this felt really unsatisfactory given the initial description. 4. Bugs. Unfortunately there were lots of mosquitos who snuck into the apartment despite our assiduous use of screens or closed windows. (This was during low season, so it might be bad in summer.) Although we did not see any cockroaches in the apartment, there were several roach traps. There was also a sign in the lobby stating that there had been recent issues, and we saw roaches in the streets. This made us feel that we had to be especially meticulous about immediately cleaning up our dishes and sinks, and keeping *all* food in...