Overall, we were happy with the place and the experience.

THE GOOD: the apartment met our needs well, was reasonably nice, and had a great location. We would definitely stay here again. When I contacted Maggie via email or phone, she was very responsive.

THE BAD: the process was much more difficult than it needed to be, in large part because Maggie still seems to be figuring out how to manage a property and rent it out via Airbnb. When I booked the place, she notified me that airbnb had given me the wrong price, so she was raising it. The new price was still fair, so that was not a dealbreaker. The next disappointment was that while Maggie is very good at responding to communications, she's less good at initiating them. She never provided much information about where the place is or things we needed to know about it. I didn't get the exact address until I emailed her a few days before. Same with how to get the keys. There was no info about basic things like how to buzz people into the building (it's on the third floor). There was no soap in the bathroom, and the spare roll of toilet paper was hidden away in the far corner of a cabinet in the kitchen, which we didn't notice until a couple of days into our stay, after we had already bought more.

Also, the listing said (twice) that the flat has a clothes dryer, but it doesn't, which is an issue in cold, rainy Edinburgh. There's a drying rack in the apartment, which must be used in the apartment; there's nowhere outside it can safely be left, even on a sunny day.

To add insult to injury, when we arrived at the flat after a week of traveling ready to do laundry, we discovered not only that there is no dryer, but that there was wet laundry on the rack, so we couldn't do laundry until our second day at the flat when the wet laundry was picked up.

A screw was sticking up out of the floor near the entrance to the bathroom, which would have been very easy to snag a toe on had we not noticed it early on.

We expected a small kitchen, but a pot large enough to cook a bag of pasta in would have been nice. The two pots in the kitchen are both quite small.

Directions to the place in advance would have been very helpful, especially since (1) Google Maps and Mapquest don't recognize the address, and (2) there's a lot of construction nearby, and we discovered when we tried to drive to the flat that the normal access roads are closed off, so GPS called out directions that couldn't be followed.

Ultimately, we were able to roll with most of these minor issues (though we did get a flat tire in our rental car trying to park nearby after a very stressful attempt to get to the flat by car).