Have to say that bathrooms and kitchens are cheap to do if you DIY. New cabinets, appliances, and terlit cost a few grand to ten grand if you’re really extravagant.
My apartment faces the street and a big courtyard, not an air shaft, so not much chance of a neighbor stinking it up.
Agreed that the typical tenement with 4 apts on a 25′ x 100′ lot per floor sucks to live in, since only one side of each apt gets good light.
