My brother and I stayed with Ryan for 5 nights in April and it was great. It was one of our first airbnb experience and I'm glad Ryan made this experience a good one. He met us at the bus terminal, because we couldn't be at his apartment on a certain time. When our bus had delays, he waited for about an hour to give us the keys and tell us the way to the apartment, so we don't get lost and because of that he was even late for his own meeting. His apartment is really clean (and even more, considering he has a dog). Ty (his dog) is super sweet, very quiet (especially when he is in front of the TV watching animal planet :D) and welcomed us nicely every time we entered the apartment. Ryan's roommate was also nice and barely noticeable. The room itself is clean, has lots of storage and the bed is sooooo comfortable. The only minus (which is not even a real disadvantage about staying with Ryan more the American way of building houses) about our stay was that you could hear the traffic outside. But as far as my experience in America, you always hear what's going on outside and especially in New York there is a lot of traffic to hear. But because we wanted to wake up early in the morning anyway it didn't really bother us and if not you could just turn around and keep sleeping. As his description says, if you're outside the apartment there is nothing fancy about it, but as soon as you enter his apartment you feel home and welcomed. We could use the little bathroom mostly for ourselves and shared the big one for taking a shower, which was never a problem. About the area, in the Beginning we were kind of deterred about it because I heard that Harlem is unsafe and when we arrived the streets weren't that clean and many people were hanging around in the streets, but I think it depends on which street you are and what time you walk around, because not all of them are at all times like this and we felt even "safer" at night then the day. After a while we got used to it and we had no problems getting around or feeling unsafe and I'm sure if Ryan can live there for a couple years, it should be safe ;) A supermarket was also close by and I would recommend buying a 7 day unlimited subway ticket for getting around New York if you stay for a couple days. Last and most important some facts about our experience with Ryan. It was really nice meeting him. He was so helpful and nice in every way. You could write him all the time and he would give you advice about what to do, where to go,.... He was our perfect phone tour guide. Every once in a while, especially in the beginning,...