Alex's place is super spacious, and it has a fantastic view. Alex's super communicative, always returning my questions within minutes. It's in a residential neighborhood, very nice, safe, and quiet.
A couple of things to note, though:
-The main living area, bedroom, and bathroom are connected by a joint utility-room-garage space with water heater and furnace as well as a staircase to owner's house upstairs. It took us a little bit of effort to figure it out the layout. It was not shown in the pictures in the listing. Also, those three areas are not connected next to one another. It's a little bit of walk from room to room, a little inconvenient.
-We are allergic to pets and unfortunately we had allergy reaction as soon as we stepped into the apt. We suspect it's because either the previous guests brought pets, or Alex has pets (the apt shares the heating system with owners' home upstairs). It's partly our fault though since we inadvertently did not limit our search to "no pets" listings only.
-Although it's about only 10, 12 miles to main tourist attractions, but when we went out during rush hours, it's a good 45 min/1 hour drive.