We really enjoyed staying at Brenda's apartment in Linden Hills! You cannot choose a more beautiful and family friendly neighborhood. It is safe, scenic, walkable, close to shops, restaurants, parks and Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet.
The apartment was very clean with all the basics provided.
Some things that we weren't aware of was that the apartment was without central heat and air. There was a radiator (which you cannot control) and air conditioning units in the bedrooms. However the apartment did stay on the cooler side. A space heater is provided which we had to use since it did get quite cool for late April/May (low 30s some days). The only draw back to this is that it isn't possible to use the space heater at the same time as other things in the house such as the dishwasher or microwave. Doing so caused the breaker to trip. Not a terrible inconvenience, but definitely not ideal.
There was a leak in the bathroom that seemed to be caused by excessive rain. I am not sure this would always be a problem, but it might be if the weather is particularly bad during your stay.
The last unpleasant thing we had to deal with was the noise from the neighbors up stairs. They were very courteous neighbors, however you could hear them any time they moved as it's an older building. This may not be an issue for some people but if you aren't a deep sleeper expect that you will be woken up. We regularly heard someone walking around at 10 pm, 2 am, 4:30 am and again at 6 am. Made it difficult to sleep consistently through the night, especially since we had our 18 month old son with us.
I want to end this review on a positive. Brenda was an excellent host who promptly got back to us and offered to fix any issue within her ability (breaker, leak). We did not let her know about the upstairs neighbors because you cannot tell people to not walk around in their own house :) However the middle of the night noise might be something that could be addressed in the future. We would stay at any Airbnb owned by Brenda again.