Pros:
-Apartment/efficiency was very clean and they wrote a nice card to us and left us wine.
Cons:
-Host hired contractors to work on her backyard, which the apartment overlooks, and she didn’t tell us until arrival (she has a strict cancellation policy). The neighbors also were doing construction and jackhammering at 7 am every morning.
-It was supposed to have onsite parking but she made me move my car 3 times on and off the street because of the contractors vehicles.
-The apartment isn’t insulated very well and the a/c unit in the window in the bedroom is taped to the window using tape and there are little areas where the outside is completely exposed. The insulation also causes the apartment to be very cold and you can hear everything outside and upstairs.
-The listing is really far from the subway, about 15-20 minute walk and cafes and places to eat are also too far to walk.
-There was ground coffee but no coffee filters or a coffee maker and she told us that the coffee was instant and we tried it, and it was clearly not and undrinkable.