JUST LISTED! Gorgeous luxury 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo in Old Town Victoria

The Good: This is an attractive, clean second floor apartment in a good location. It is secure and has a secure parking garage, the cost of which is included in the rent. It sports a nice, outdoor patio. The price was quite reasonable.

The Bad: The brick and glass exterior wall of the main bedroom and the living area readily transmits, and seemingly amplifies, street noise. There were heavy and noisy vehicles, and people yelling and cursing and partying until well past 3:00 a.m., and it all sounded as if it were right there in the bedroom with us. In addition, the buildings across the street were brightly lit for most of the night, and the window blinds did not adequately shut out that brightness.

Instructions provided for opening the gate to the parking garage were not just inadequate, they were flat wrong. The key and fob secured in a double safe behind an outside wall at a restaurant several blocks from the building were the ones required to open the garage gate. One does not, as described in the instructions, have to use that fob to enter the apartment to obtain another to open the garage (the fob inside the apartment will open three different security doors, but will not open the garage). Instructions were inadequate as to how to use the fobs, and which of the two gated garages in the area was the correct one. Instructions were also inadequate for using appliances--for example, the dishwasher or the plug-in wall fireplace (I asked about the fireplace, but received no reply).

As has been noted by others, the second bedroom is tiny and quite stuffy. In fact, the apartment is compact, and both bedrooms would be better served by queen beds, rather than the enormous king beds which leave little room for anything else, including one's luggage. The closet in the main bedroom, where one might store luggage, was filled with a foldup bed.

So my take is, one could live with, or work around, most of the flaws (and we did), but the noise factor would make me recommend against renting this apartment.