My review is a bit long. But hope it will be helpful.
We booked the house of Sirin for 10 days, but lived there only 6 days. Since we spent some time in the south of Turkey. We were 4 adults and 1 little child.
Communication and check-in:
The house owner responds quite fast. She was waiting for us in the house. Check in was good. We could easily find the place.
Location:
Location is very good. Very close to Istiklal Street, Taksim.
However If you are coming from the airport with heavy luggage I suggest you to use Funicular from Taksim to Kabatas. Otherwise your walk from Taksim to the house is very steep.
Our stay:
I really hope that the owner will make the stay of new guests even better.
However what we had is the following:
1. Cleanliness. Our house was full of dust under beds and in closets.
2. Electric stove should be changed. It is not good for cooking, and very old.
3. The old furniture is better removed from the house. What I mean is the TV and TV table in double-bed bedroom, no need for them in the bedroom as they have no utility for the guest.
It confuses the guests and make the overall view of the flat distorted.
4. The fridge. It is also not good working. Maybe the owner has to unfreeze it. Our food gone bad in that fridge in 1 day. We couldn't use it properly.
5. Good to mention that the second single bed is not actually a normal bed, but it is just folding bed. There was no photo of it. We could only guess.
Overall: our stay was 6/10. It could be higher if the above mentioned wouldn't make us sad.
Special thanks to Sirin for leaving toys to my daughter. She enjoyed them.