The positives: check-in was easy and the location is great--right by the freeway and easy to get to/get around. The place is the right size for 2-3 people, and the price isn't bad. Even though you're close to the highway, I didn't think that noise was a problem at all.
However, the place was not clean when we arrived--there was a strong, musty/very unpleasant odor permeating the entire apartment, and all of the surfaces were sticky/dirty. The couch has a number of obvious stains and also a really strong, smelly odor. My friend described it as, "a cat peed itself to death in here".
I contacted Joe right away, and he wrote back and said that he had tried out a new cleaning product and supposed that was the cause of the odor/lack of cleanliness. He offered to come back and clean again the next day and bring a new couch cover, but he offered very little advance notice for when he stopped by, so unfortunately we had to turn him away (we were getting ready for an event and couldn't take a break to let him clean).
There are lots of other positive reviews for this place, so I'd like to believe that ours was just one bad experience, but unfortunately, I would not recommend this place to a friend.