I'm sorry to say, my friend and I have had enough of Pablo for one lifetime. He cost us a lot of time, effort, and money. In late March, my friend and I started planning a Montreal trip for us and our kids for 15 nights in late June. Neither of us had used airbnb before, but had friends who rave about it. Apr7: After communicating with Pablo, we worked out the details and got Pre-approval Apr9: Payment received (ie. $1538 charged to my credit card) Apr20: Pablo asked us to find a different place to stay for the 2nd of our 2 weeks because his family was coming and they couldn't find accommodations. Note that after we had paid for Pablo's place, we had paid for the program our kids were going to go to (purpose of the trip) and airline tickets. May2: Resolved, after numerous emails/phonecalls over more than a week. We didn't really want to spend our one full weekend in Montreal relocating from one place to another with kids and gear - but ultimately we didn't seem to have a choice. Originally Pablo didn't seem bothered about breaking the deal we had, but when we explained, he eventually helped us find what seemed to be a decent spot for the 2nd week. May28: Less than 4weeks later, Pablo came back to us again and wanted to cancel completely for the remaining week of our stay - this time not even providing an excuse. We told him if there was anything comparable (in all of the details that were important to us - including the price) then no problem, but we asked him to do all of the legwork as we were already weary with this. He tried, and to quote from his email: "I am negotiating the price since I want to cover the difference." May31: Problem was, it was less than a month before our arrival and the stay was during the Jazz Fest in Montreal. So at that point, we were homeless because neither he nor we could find ANYTHING comparable. His best negotiating ended up $487 more than we had paid him. To be fair, he talked about his "moral obligation" and contributed $200 to "cover" that difference. But why should we have been stuck with $287 for his inability to plan, host, or uphold a contract he'd agreed to? Jun2: Finally done. But on Pablo's suggestion, he left one day on the reservation at the lowest allowable airbnb rate of $12 so I could cancel. He told me if he cancelled, it would cost him $50 which he was trying to avoid (plus, there would have been a public note saying he had cancelled us). I finally decided to eat the $12 - because we couldn't figure out any other way to be allowed to write him a review. I thought it was important prospective guests know what my friend and I experienced. I hope he takes hosting more seriously in the...