Let me start of with

1) Do not book any place on Airbnb with a request of "Security Deposit" this is just a gateway for someone to scam your money.

2) If you do ever rent a place with Security Deposit charged. Make sure to take pictures of everything! I got scammed to repair someone's floor, ya...FLOOR. Hence why I said avoid because how can you take picture of ever inch of the floor or anything when your on a vacation???

3) Avoid this host if you can.

Full disclosure, you can believe me or not but this is my warning.

Summary: I got scammed 300 EUROs from the this host. She said I broke her floor. We checked out after the host inspected everything and said it was ok. We thought this was the end...How wrong was I. Within hours, a dispute is open against me saying I broke her floor. And the rest of the story is basically me getting scammed.

There is not much protection from the renter side because this is how the situation was resolved. The host open a dispute about me breaking the floor. I said I didn't, Airbnb waited for host to provide cost to repair (2 weeks), a "compromise" was reached by Airbnb, basically I have to pay all my deposit.

As you can see, there is not much protection for the renter. Airbnb warn people to make sure everything is work when you check in. Yes, that is possible, but is this feasible? When you are on a vacation, is it possible to check everything when you check in? In addition, even if you checked everything, the host can just come back and say is not working and the blame is on the renter.

If you want details of the story you can msg me as it is too long to type everything here.

LESSON" AVOID.