Unfortunately, there was a collision of events that led us to checking out of the apartment early. The apartment was not cleaned to the standards we’ve come to expect with Airbnb properties and there was a drainage problem with the bathroom sink that caused an very unpleasant smell throughout the apartment. Instead of contacting the owner over the weekend, we tried to remedy the problems ourselves with over the counter products and a top to bottom housecleaning. In hindsight we should have contacted the owner immediately. When we finally did contact him, he was very responsive and had a plumber at the apartment in 30 minutes and scheduled a second ‘deep clean’ of the apartment. Unfortunately by that time, we were running up against the cancellation policy deadline and had to make a decision to stay/leave before the issues had been resolved - in hopes of getting any money back from our reservation. The apartment is in a great location and should be in excellent shape for the next guests.