If you want a quiet, peaceful, comfortable place, with pleasant surroundings, this is not it. I will start with the positives. The apartment was clean. There were no bugs or rodents which is surprising with 2 restaurants in the building. The floors inside were clean and paint was fresh. The towels and sheets were clean and pleasant smelling and the good part ends there. Overall the listing is very misleading. The photos exaggerate the size and dimensions, and even show a little table and chairs in a bay window overlooking the street below, which is actually in the hallway for example. Our first experience when opening the door was a dirty, narrow, steep stairway that was hot and smelly, but first had to get past some very sad looking homeless folks lingering around the area. We should have left then. When we entered the apartment it was cool ish and that’s fine but it was a spectacular day and the windows didn’t have screens, were filthy in and outside, all but 2 window views were the roofs of other units which had squawking seagulls, seagull poop and various bloody bits of their previous meals along with some miscellaneous debris as well as utility type structures that made noise. The only functional window that had a 6-inch screen was above the sidewalk outside the restaurant below, where people were talking and smoking. The window in the kitchen did open but wouldn’t stay open and it didn’t lock either. When it was open the curious seagulls wanted to come inside until it arbitrarily slammed itself shut, as did 1 of the living room windows. There are 2 window air conditioners which were fine for capacity but loud. The furniture, appliances, bed, bedding, blinds, curtains, and mattress are of the Walmart quality level at best. The mattress and couch were exceptionally uncomfortable. The super cheapo broken blinds didn’t block much light and the curtains didn’t either. It’s a noisy location. Cars going by with thumping stereos, music from the bar across the street on a Monday night, and in the morning at the crack of dawn the seagulls were screaming right outside the window over the sounds of what I can only imagine were cleaning people banging and dragging around furniture in the restaurant below and the upstairs tenant walking around. All of which were heard clearly over the the loud air conditioners. All of this seems typical for tenement style buildings I suppose. When I texted Jim with my displeasure and disappointment, he was not only un-professional and petulant, but rude and insulting. He wrote “I will have the maids do extra work tomorrow to clean whatever is left of you out of my building”. He also wrote that I was nasty and invited me to leave at just shy 10pm, which would have been fine if there were not vagrants loitering around the entire block, or there was any local availability elsewhere. At $285 a night for what was advertised by Jim Blumel as a brand-new apartment, I had far greater expectations of an honest representation. While Jim can’t control some of the issues, he is dishonest by omission for leaving out details of what to expect such as noise, filth, economy grade furnishings, poor aesthetics from the windows, and the homeless population. I hope this helps others manage their expectations of a successful vacation in beautiful Newport.