We had several problems, but worse was how they were handled by the host. Mostly it was the shoddy pluming, which became incredibly time consuming for us (washroom flooded, parts needing replacement, leaking heater so bad we had to change the bucket underneath every 8 hours...), but there was also loud construction on the premises.

Upon entrance to the apartment, as always, I ran the water hot/cold from every tap/shower, and flushed the toilet to ensure it was working properly. Upon the first flush, rushing water 'waterfalled' from the wall (flush handles in Argentina are often at chest height) with such exertion that the bathroom floor flooded. I had to clean it and placed rags over the floor so the wood floor in the hallway wouldn't be affected. Luckily there was a resident caretaker doing some work outside, who, after helping me clean and attempting to fix the problem unsuccessfully, ran out to buy a new part and replaced the faulty one in the toilet. This was a frustrating ordeal as it made me late to leave for the airport to pick up my boyfriend who was arriving that afternoon.

The following day, loud construction began right outside our window (on the property), that continued through the weekdays we stayed there. We would have liked at least a warning about this, as tenants usually know when their building will have work done (see Jeppe's review below).

The next day the water heater in the kitchen began leaking so badly that we had to change the bucket under it every 8 hours. Which meant coming home during our days out (no small feat in a huge city like Buenos Aires) and setting an alarm to wake up in time to change it.

Last straw. Though we didn't want to move apartments - we only had a few days left - I wrote Alejandra in the morning, listing the issues of the week. Though we wanted to stay, I thought that we had paid too much considering all the extra work required of us, so I requested 10% of our week's stay back, which we thought was fair.

Alejandra responded with a defensive, snarky and unkind email that she would consider giving me one night's money back, but came up with many excuses why it would be too difficult...

In the meantime, we had been invited to a great event on Monday (we had planned to check out Sunday) so I wrote back suggesting that it might be simpler if we just stayed the extra night free of charge, and we would deal with the water. In her next email she accused me of breaking her toilet and making "threats and extortions" seeking an extra night...

When I checked out I was in a rush and forgot my leather belt and wine-opener. Alejandra didn't respond to any of my 3 emails, though AirBnB contacted her on my behalf.

A comfortable place with great terrace, location.