Host is a scammer, said we need to contact Air BNB for a refund when she can do it even though she knew our situation.
We flew our family out to the San Diego area from NJ and were going to stay in this AirBNB until our move-in date of a local house we thought we were renting.
We found out once we got here that the rental we put $15,000 down on was a rental scam, now we had to go back to NJ with our 3-year-old. We explained the situation to the host and we could not stay there, and she said we need to contact AirBNB and she can't give us any refund. That's a lie, she can do the refund and she was very rude during a really hard time for our family.