Stefanie’s communication was sometimes excellent then she would just go quiet sometimes. She also gets extremely upset over minor things making reasonable discussions impossible. We should perhaps have expected this from dire warnings about being sent “to karmic hell” on her list of rules in the apartment.
We accidentally broke a coffeemaker handle (that was already very old and clearly breaking when we got there) and her response to an offer to pay half the replacement cost was to cut off communication and tell us never to contact her again.
I’d suggest that if she gets that distressed over such minor things, she should perhaps not be an AirBnB host.
On the upside, Stefanie’s place is beautiful and was spotless. There is lots of natural light through very large windows throughout normally this would be a huge advantage but we were unlucky enough to be in Berlin during a heatwave, when those same windows turned the place into a bit of a greenhouse, several degrees warmer than the outside.