Renter beware. I wish I had followed my instincts from the start, when Delphine didn't reply to my first request to rent this apartment and I had to send out a second request. That was the writing on the wall, it gave me pause but I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I have rented multiple apartments from VRBO, Paris Perfect, Paris Vacation Apartments, etc., and I have never had to contact the owner (or in this case the apartment manager). In this instance, I had to contact Delphine so many times about issues that should never have come up, that it adversely affected the trip. The problems started from before I even arrived. Wanting to set up a meeting time with Delphine, I sent emails via airbnb the day before my arrival,and got no reply. I sent another message the morning of the day of my arrival, and again got no reply. This was really nerve-wracking. I finally got a reply when I was in the taxi on my way to the apartment, anxious that there would be nobody there to meet me. In that communication, Delphine asked that I only communicate with her using WhatsApp. This seemed suspicious to me, and I again should have trusted my instincts and said no, because she used it against me (saying WhatsApp was my idea) when I filed a claim with AirBnb. Upon arrival to the apartment, there was somebody there who quickly went through the apartment with me. Before he left, I asked if there was a fan available. He looked all over the place and couldn't find one. Paris was undergoing a heatwave, so a fan was essential. He said he would bring one back with towels later. Later, I got towels (very old, thin, scratchy, ratty towels, and I ended up needing to borrow some decent towels from a Parisian friend), but no fan. I asked again about the fan, and continued asking for the next two days and nights (because it was so hot), and was finally told they would ask the owner if they could buy one. Owner replied to them that the fan was in a dresser drawer in the apartment. This is information they should have given me from the start, I shouldn't have had to go two nights without a fan. But they are managers and not owners, and they don't know the apartment at all. The day of check in, I went through the apartment on my own, after the employee showed me around. I found it to be very unclean: pubic hair and liquid on the toilet seat; splotches of shampoo on the shower floor; moldy shower; food smeared on the table; sticky fingerprints on all the windows; dead fly smashed on the wall; crumbs on the tray table in living room; dishes and utensils all needed to be rewashed; coffee pot still had water in it from previous guest, and was sticky. I told Delphine immediately, and while I...