Overall we had a great stay in Emir's place, and he is very kind and helpful and will visit to fix a problem you have despite him living far away from the apartment, he'll still quickly be there if you need any help. And of course contacting him on phone was great, he's very quick to respond. He even gave us a whole day for free, we were supposed to begin our stay on the 7th but we were already in Istanbul before that, and he let us move our stuff and begin our stay on the 6th instead!
We had an issue with the boiler and Emir eventually had to replace the whole boiler with a new one, but he did it quickly after we told him about the issues, and for the next guests in this place you'll have a new boiler which works perfectly, so enjoy that!
The apartment is clean and Emir really has thought of everything. There are notes around the place to let you know if you need to do a certain thing, for example charging the water dispenser and etc. There's a first aid kit, toolbox, vacuum cleaner, and pretty much everything you'd need in an apartment. We felt like we were staying in the home of a clean family that recently left. Almost anything we needed we'd find, and overall really goes to show how experienced Emir is with his guests. So even if most of your stay will be at home, you'll be very comfortable all day in his place. AC also works great, both for cooling and warming, so no worries there.
A quick negative note about the apartment is the internet, it's not great but it's good enough for social media and whatnot, it's just that watching 720p+ videos and streams was sometimes troublesome, and in rare occasions it was so bad that we couldn't use simple internet applications, but as I said that was rarely.
I'll mention a few things about the area now. And something bothersome, which isn't Emir's fault at all but we were pretty bothered by it, is how crowded it is.
This won't matter to you if you won't take public transportation, but if you'll rely on the metrobüs, you won't have a good time here. Unfortunately, Şirinevler, which is the station that's very conveniently only 3 minutes walking away from Emir's place, is one of the most crowded stations in Istanbul. No matter what time you leave, and that includes when we left at 5am to go back to the airport, you're not gonna find a place to sit in the buses. And if you go out pretty much any time between 7am-10pm, you're gonna find the station extremely full, and pretty much every bus you take will have you standing and almost squished between so many people. But I will mention that our stay was during summer, so there's a very small possibility that it's not as bad in the winter. Again, this isn't Emir's fault at all, but do keep this in mind if you're going to rely on the metrobüs. Ultimately it's just an issue that you'll find in many places in Istanbul, sadly the city is too crowded.
As for other mostly positive notes about the area, 3 minutes away from both the metrobüs and a metro (underground train) station is amazingly convenient. The area is full of life and restaurants and pharmacies and almost anything you can think of, however the grocery stores aren't very good. But an easy solution is to cross the metrobüs bridge to the other side and walk a very short distance, then you'll find an AVM (kind of a small mall) that has a massive grocery store in it where you'll find anything you'll need. Or ultimately just order groceries to your home if you want. Oh and if you love animals, the area is full of very cute cats and dogs that we had so much fun playing with and feeding.
And a last, mostly unimportant note, is that if you really care about the streets being fancy, and the people in the area being high class and young and modern, you won't really find that in this place. It's a very old district which also means the building is pretty old, however the apartment itself is amazing.
I think that wraps up all the important stuff I want to mention. The TV isn't smart but it has an HDMI input, so if you have a laptop that supports HDMI you can connect it. The TV remote almost doesn't work, but we managed to use it and hence we didn't tell Emir about it, which if we did I'm sure he would've helped us with it and replaced the remote. The stove isn't great but again we didn't tell him about it until now in the private review, so hopefully and I'm sure it'll be fixed for the next guests.
Thanks to Emir for everything he's done for us, we had a pretty nice stay here and would definitely recommend to others.