We stayed in the apartment for nine days/nights in mid-September. The location is excellent! Lots of transit options and good restaurants nearby, and the courtyard is lovely. Apartment is nice, but the photos in the ad make it look more spacious than it is. We found it very inconvenient to have just a curtain (no properly usable door) on the bathroom, which is off the bedroom. (There is a sliding door of sorts, on the outside of the door frame, but it is enormous and very heavy and almost impossible to drag across the carpet.) The living room sofa, which is the second “bed,” is very stiff and uncomfortable, and the mattress on it barely folds into a sofa because it is so stiff. Really not a useful second sleeping option. But this was the real problem: On our arrival, the fridge (a mini-bar fridge) reeked with an overpowering stench of rotten fish that pervaded the apartment and prevented us from entering the kitchen. When we complained, Gary said he would have it replaced (by the caretaker who is responsible for the place since Gary lives in the US). We found out later that Gary knew about the fridge problem the day before we arrived but didn’t have it replaced – just asked his caretaker to do his best to clean it. We therefore had to endure the stench, and not have use of the kitchen, for three days before it was replaced. This was because the day we arrived (and complained) was a Saturday, the stores were closed on the Sunday, and the caretaker didn’t bring the fridge until Monday evening. When we complained about the fridge, Gary didn’t apologize – just said the previous guest had caused the problem and the fridge would be replaced. When we were leaving at the end of our stay, Gary texted to ask what time we would be departing and said he hoped we had enjoyed our stay. I responded that we had enjoyed it after the first three days, but that before that, the fridge situation had made it pretty difficult. Gary did apologize at this point, but again blamed the previous guest, saying that he/she had “refused to take responsibility for it.” We aren’t sure what this means, but we feel it was up to Gary to do everything possible to solve the problem when he found out about it, so that it didn’t become ours – which it definitely did. We feel a part of the problem here is that the owner himself isn’t taking care of the apartment – has hired someone else to do it – and so isn’t personally aware of what is going on in it. We have used Airbnb before, and will use it again, but we will try to make sure not to stay in remotely operated properties from this point forward. If the fridge issue hadn’t happened, we would have enjoyed our stay at this property – and we do think it...