This apartment is in a great location and Mercedes is a very gracious host. However, I would caution if you plan on spending a lot of time in the actual apartment. When I was there, there was a huge issue of cleanliness. There are two long term roommates who do not clean up after themselves (dishes in the sink, no refrigerator space, rotten apples on the counter for over a week, water soaking the bathroom floor, bodily excretions left on the toilet etc.) The smell from the kitchen, trash, and bathroom was pretty atrocious. This bedroom has one small window to the kitchen so there is no way to filter out the smell. There is only one window in the whole place and that is in the kitchen, but you can’t open it because there is an AC there.
Mercedes did her absolute best to reach out to the long term tenants multiple times to try to resolve the ongoing issues, however they did not improve so I chose to leave. It’s unfortunate because other than that this place has great bones and is in a great location.