Elaine’s apartment was cute, tidy, and great for our needs. However, we had some issues with the host. Partway into our 7 week stay, she contacted me and asked if I would ask AirBNB to take the 2nd half of money out of my account and give to her right away instead of on the indicated date. She said she had already contacted Airbnb and they said this was against their policy, so she wanted me to contact them and try to convince them. She justified this by saying she had to give up long-term tenants so that we could stay there, and that she had lots of costs incurred for setting up the place such as kitchen supplies, crockery, towels, linens etc, and that it shouldn’t be an issue for 4 of us to cover the cost early (would have been over $500 each). We contacted AirBNB Support because we were confused about why she was asking us for this when AirBNB had already refused. Additionally, it felt like she was trying to manipulate us to pay early due to costs that any AirBNB host would expect to pay when setting up a new listing. AirBNB contacted Elaine for us and told her again that it was against policy to release the money earlier. Elaine thanked us for trying. Near the end of our stay Elaine told us that she had booked a professional cleaner to come in for a cleaning assessment while we were still staying at the apartment. We were not consulted on time/date. We let it go, however, and we told Elaine that we had accidentally damaged the towels with acne face wash. We told her that we were going to be leaving about 4 days earlier then what we had rented and were hoping that the costs she would save in electricity/water would make up for the cost of the towels (we did not ask for reimbursement for the days we would be absent). She said she would let the towels go this time and asked us to check the sheets and duvet covers (We did – no damage). Elaine then booked the professional cleaning to be done the day after we were set to leave. I unfortunately had made a mistake about the day we would be leaving and told her that we would actually be staying until Wednesday – this meant the cleaners were coming to do the assessment AND then coming to do the final cleaning all while we were still in the apartment. Shortly after the cleaners did their assessment, Elaine called and left a voicemail saying that she was quoted $230 for the cleaning and was surprised by this. She said that she heard the shower was a bit “grubby” and that the oven might need some cleaning, and the she wanted us to go buy some cleaning supplies from the store and scrub the shower and the oven. She said we needed to do this because it was AirBNB...