YES, very possible.
I grew in a 1,000 square foot 2 bedroom apartment(main floor) for almost 2 years. I grew 8 plants in veg and another 8 in flower and a third smaller grow room I used for seedlings/clones. I had 2400 watts going 12/12 and 650 watts going 18/6. I used Can brand carbon filters using negative pressure rooms and never had smell issues. Only dangerous time was harvesting outside of grow rooms, just used tons of FeBreeze x2 during. I have always used a dry room with a small Can brand filter and 4" fan to control smell there.
KEY words Carbon Filter/Can brand/Negative Pressure.
My biggest issue was heat and venting. I vented into main room like I do now in my home, and in the hot months it got hot, even with central air going it was tough to maintain a 75 degree apartment temp and a 85 grow room temp. But it worked. I used open hoods so if you use air-cooled hoods or cool tubes that should help. In the winter months if it gets cold where you are mold will be the threat, high RH. All you need it a simple 150-250 dollar dehumidifier and you are good to go.
So if it gets hot where you are you will have a good electric bill for a/c unless you do air-cooled hoods or even invest in a split-duct room a/c, or ice boxes with a chiller ect. But just air-cooling your hoods by exhausting them separately from the rooms will help with temps. If you can vent all or even some of the hot exhaust outside you are ahead of the game. If on a floor other than basement or first, you can easily exhaust right out a window/screen and just seal everything up so you are not losing cold air or bringing hot air in. Camo it, make it look not suspicious.
Main threat will be landlord or maintenance. This is why bedrooms are the safest place for grow rooms. Most bedrooms do not have electric breaker boxes, furnaces, water mains to be worked on so a landlord should never enter a bedroom unless it needed to be painted or something, fix a broken widow, ect.
Basically it can be done and done well.