Considering the great location and the rock bottom price, we guessed there would be some compromises in terms of the quality of the accommodation, and we were prepared for that.

What we weren't prepared for was spending the first ten minutes of our stay with our hands inside a toilet tank trying to fish out the mechanism to get the damn thing to flush. Or finding that it would be much better to keep our shoes on, as there was some weird/gross sticky crap on the super-shaggy Ikea carpet. Or that we couldn't give the baby a bath because there was no stop in the bathtub.

José seems like a really nice guy, and he did what he could to take care of us, but this apartment really is a bit of a. It's really baffling because the location is AMAZING and a lot of the things that marred our stay could be fixed with just a few minutes and a little bit of attention: a bath stopper, a new toilet mechanism...these things are not expensive! And throwing away the super-gnarly carpets is free!

José, amigo, can't you see that the apartment has a lot of potential? It's never going to have a lot of natural light, but if you spent just a few thousand dollars sanding the beautiful floors, redoing the frankenstein-style grouting around the tub and freshening up the tiny-but-functional kitchen, plus buying a couple of decent lamps and a couple of things to hang on the wall and you could easily rented for double the price. You'd get your investment back in no time!

As it stands, we didn't think it was worth it even at this price.