This is a beautifully remodeled, traditional home in a hip neighborhood in Istanbul's old city. It is very difficult to find places this large or well located in Istanbul. While the home is beautiful, those (particularly with kids) should note that the neighbors are quite loud during the day (they run a lumber sales business and cut wood with axes and electric saws all day long), and several have dogs chained up outside that bark all night. Furthermore, not pictured in the listing is the basement, which is open to the rest of the home via the central stairwell. The basement is exposed via grated openings to the outside street. This means that there is a constant draft of very cold air throughout the home. This is not noticeable on the second (kitchen/dining/living) nor third (master) floors, but keeps the first floor (two bedrooms and bathroom) cold and very moldy smelling. I have advised the host to block the basement off, and think that this will greatly improve the quality of life on and usability of the first floor. Furthermore, internet only actively works on the second floor of the home, which will be an issue for many who want to stream from the bedroom. In addition to these more structural issues with the home, we were disappointed in the quality of care and communication by the host's agent. They were slow or very reluctant to respond to remedy requests for broken equipment (heating, washing machine) in the home, and expected us to facilitate meeting with workmen, resolve our own problems (find another place to run laundry, purchase our own heating unit, etc.), citing his many other properties to manage and lack of time. Hopefully the owner will address this mismanagement moving forward. While we had to evacuate our 2-month rental of this home due to COVID-19, we likely would have left our reservation early regardless because of ongoing dissatisfaction with the agent.