Positives:
+Great location.
+Nicely decorated.
+Comfy couch and furniture (bed is foam and a bit soft for my liking but good quality.) +Parking easy and close.
+The third party hired to meet us was friendly and helpful.
Negatives:
-Cleanliness: the cleaner must have had an off day before our visit.
1.) The shower had previous tenants hairs (long and short curly) so we cleaned it ourselves before we took our first shower.
2.) The vacuum was left in the open living room space and not put away until we asked the nice gentleman who met us (not the owner) to move it as the space is enough but is too cozy with cleaning things in the living room.
3.) We also chose this apartment as it has a washer/dryer but there was no laundry detergent under the sink, just an empty box.
All three of these things are unacceptable misses/oversights of the cleaners when we paid for cleaning.
-Communication: Having to coordinate with a third party and also not using Airbnb's app/website is a hassle. I like having everything inside the Airbnb website/app but to get info on arrival, check in, etc. I had to give my personal email address. This is mildly annoying as I was traveling internationally and accessing my email and trying to find info sent there (went to my spam as the third party's email address wasn't recognized and it wasn't sent through Airbnb so it was hard to find the message) rather than through Airbnb was just one more hurdle.
It is a nice place but when I decided to spend more than the average for an apartment, I expected it to be above average. The cleanliness issues got us off to a really a bad start as that was all discovered in the first hour or two.