Advisory: if anyone in your party is mobility challenged, this may not be the apartment for you.
The staircase to the second-floor apartment is dark, narrow and twisting with no handrails, difficult to navigate with even a medium-sized suitcase. In addition, the beds were full-sized (double) but made up in height what they lacked in width - we had to literally jump into (up to?) bed!
The positives: the location of the apartment was within easy walking distance of Frenchmen Street, the French Quarter and Bywater. Communications with Vello were prompt and professional. The building is old, but our unit was clean. Downstairs restaurant (Breakaways R&B) wasn't as noisy as we feared. Franklin restaurant across the street offers excellent food and half-priced bottles of wine on Wednesdays.
The negatives: substandard bathroom with worn-off enamel in the tub/shower and a torn-down towel bar revealing missing tiles. Simulated vinyl floorboards coming loose. No table or shelf for our toiletries, so we moved an end table in from the living room. A sign asking guests to be kind to the century-old plumbing might explain the s****y (pun intended) single-ply TP in a wall dispenser more than an arm's reach away! Any improvements to the property must have been made by a dude, because no woman would have accepted a bathroom in this condition.
The weather was cool when we arrived (late October), but the old wall-mounted gas heater was too scary to attempt. (In fairness, the window air conditioners worked well for the balance of our stay.) Quite a bit of street noise. The balcony pictured in the listing is inaccessible, all doors and windows painted shut. Amenities were limited, one dish towel, one box of Kleenex.
The kitchen has been remodeled with new appliances, probably more than you need when visiting one of America's great food cities. An ice cube tray would have been a welcome touch.
I took photos of things mentioned in this review, including a video of the staircase. Unfortunately, Airbnb doesn't allow those to be posted.
Disclaimers: (1) I don't know if Vello owns the property or is merely the property manager. We initially asked if alternative accommodations could be arranged, but no options were offered. They did put in a new shower curtain and credited ~one night's stay after I provided photos of the dirty liner; (2) all three members of our party contributed to this review, including our adult daughter who is more charitable than her parents.