I had a mostly good stay at Sigfus‘s place.
The good:
It is 1 block from the Montrose Avenue L train subway stop in Brooklyn. You can’t beat that for convenience.
It is very clean, with modern art and lots of plants. A desk in the room, books, very comfortable bed, a lock on your door. Very large bedroom. I’m a single woman, and I felt very safe in the apartment and walking around the neighborhood.
The kitchen is VERY well stocked with a small refrigerator, dishes,hot plate, pots and pans, toaster oven, microwave, coffee, tea, Nespresso, and some condiments. Kitchen table, kitchen bench with cushions and a wooden desk chair that can tip back like a rocker. There’s a nice bathroom. There is no living room.
If you have lower back pain, you may not be 100% comfortable sitting in the kitchen. But that may not be an issue for you. AND there’s a chair in your room you could use.
Sigfus lives in the apartment next-door, so when I needed help operating the Nespresso, he immediately came over. he is very nice. His and his wife’s office is at the corner of where I stayed, but I never heard them in there.
Not as good:
The kitchen has a small AC and a small air filter. This kept that room nicely cool. However, the bedroom has a radiator that you cannot turn off. As a result, I was too hot in that room. Even when it was 32° outside. I was there in March.
I could have opened the large window, but there was no screen and there’s a busy street on that side of the room, so the loud car radios, honking, and voices would have woken me up.
Had there been another guest staying in the bedroom next to mine, I would have left my bedroom door open to get the AC. But there was a guest so I did not do that.
Sigfus did promptly provide a small fan at my request.
There is one bedroom next to the other bedroom, so you may or may not have a fellow apartment mate while you stay there.