The good:
1) Great location, close to everything and the streetcars
2) Spacious clean apartment
3) Working washer/dryer
4) Good communication and easy checkin
The not so good:
1) Roaches in the apartment, right under the sofa where person #3 sleeps.
2) There's no soundproofing in the building, we heard every conversation in the hallway clearly, we heard the apartment next door showering, flushing, walking, talking, closing doors (at one point it sounded like OUR door got slammed shut because it was so loud). The people next door to us also had to ask us to keep it down even though we were not being loud at all. You can hear ALL sounds from the street, including the garbage trucks beeping at all hours of the night. Zero sound proofing. And I grew up and still live in a city, so it's not like I am not used to city noise.
3) The apartment in the listing is not exactly the same one we had. Almost the same, but the sofa was different. We were supposed to have our son sleep on the sofa but when we arrived the sofa was broken (I fell through) so we had to spent 1 night with 3 of us in a double bed. The next day Hosteeva gave us an inflatable mattress, but after seeing the roaches and how all the street sound and lights are not blocked by the apartment, we put the inflatable mattress in the bedroom. So this place is definitely for a family of 3 that wants to get cozy and not great for 3 friends traveling together.
4) The coffee pot carafe was broken and coffee spilled all over the counter, hopefully Hosteeva replaced the pot after our stay.
5) Very minimal kitchen supplies. 3 spoons, 3 forks, 2 bowls, etc. I realize they don't want extra guests but a 3rd bowl for 3 guests would have been nice.
6) Slow choppy Wi-Fi with only 1-2 bars in the living room. Oh and there was a power outage 1 night, though that is not the host's fault. I did get a text message at 7am letting me know power was restored and I can get back into the building, which makes me wonder if people were locked out due to the electric keypad.
7) Automatic text messages at 1am from Hosteeva asking us to rate our stay. Whyyy at 1am??
They did call me after our stay and provided a small refund for the inconvenience of the sofa bed situation. I have nothing against Hosteeva who were great at communicating and there's no way they would have known about the sofa bed if the previous guests didn't alert them, but would not stay in this particular building ever again. The sound problem led to 4 nights without sleep.