Vic and Anca are indeed super hosts, super friendly and responsive (even got instant reply from Vic 3ish a.m. in the morning when there was a noise issue). The place is just as that in the photos.
Yet I wasn’t expecting having flat mate(s) which I hope I could know beforehand. In fact this is the master bedroom (en-suite with a little bathroom) in a two bedroom apartment, where the cotton decorated wall denotes the living room and the kitchen that will be shared with other tenant(s) in the other bedroom and using the outside lavatory(across the corridor so that every time they will pass your door that is in between), i.e. the overall experience is greatly depending on who you share the apartment with. As usual, it’s not at all sound proof within the apartment (I heard my neighbors alarm every day) and I suffered greatly having two first year undergrad neighbors who seemed living in a different timezone having friends over being loud till 3am in the morning everyday (hence my complaint msg to Vic and Anca at such wierd time). Luckily the following tenants after them are much better and we had a good time chatting and will keep in touch.
I had stayed at ‘private room’ instead of ‘entire place’ before. But probably one won’t be experiencing messy living room or smelly fridge if staying with the owner instead of other tenants. Also there was no lock for each bedroom, the only last lock was the apartment door (to be fair the building looks quite safe tho).