Luis' place was great. The bed was comfortable, the shower was clean and I had lots of privacy. We haven't interacted much because I was mostly out in the city, but whenever we did interact - he was very sweet and accommodating.
Note that it takes about 40minutes to get from his apartment to *west* Manhattan via the subway (if you want to get to east Manhattan you can get off 5 stops earlier and it's faster). I was afraid it would be too long of a journey, but it actually worked well for me!