Mark is a great communicating host. The location of the apartment is amazing and right in the heart of the Lower East Side. The apartment itself is quite basic for this price point, however. The couch is more of a lobby couch - comfortable to sit on briefly but not the sort you can lounge on and watch TV. The bed is okay - one of the memory foam type mattresses. There is air conditioning in the lounge room only and no fan in the bedroom either. And be weary there’s no dishwasher - so you’ll be washing up your own dishes. The apartment is very dark (as other reviews had noted) and the reverberating from the speakers of the bar next door would keep me awake around 2am on Fri/Sat nights (but the apartment was otherwise quiet). The extra cleaning charges during the stay were excessive for the amount of cleaning that was done.