Very disappointing experience:
- every power outlet is falling out of the wall, there’s a hole in the wall, the entrance door looks like it was ripped out and put back in
- very very very dirty, furniture is stained, surfaces are dirty, bathroom is covered in mold, the kettle is especially disgustingly dirty
- every once in a while apartment gets filled with a heavy smell of rotten eggs - seems like a drainage problem
- bad soundproofing and the street is very busy and loud
- location is almost at the bottom of the hill and the incline is very steep (especially to Nişantaşı), every trip that you will take will require either 10-15 min of climbing the hill, or trying to catch a taxi, which has proved quite difficult to do on this street
- once the electricity in the half of the flat went dead, the ownet had to come and reset a circuit breaker
- the owner and his friends live in the flat across, they’re loud and smoking, smoke sometimes reaches the apartment
On the bright side, the owner is welcoming, I saw no cochroaches (which are pretty usual for a flat above the restaurants) and the heating is rather good. Though this hardly makes up the downsides of this apartment for me — I definitely won’t come back.