Its always hard to give any host a bad review but I will try in the most respectful way to give the most honest open one I can. Bottom line I will not recommend staying and Susie's place to any one. More so I would say STAY AWAY. For starters, I will give the community a short overview background. I booked Susie's place for a long stay of over 6 weeks. After completing the booking I asked Susie regarding the option to cancel part of the stay as her cancellation policy was strict and the reason to ask this was that the length of my stay would depend on several verbals that where at that point yet to be resolve and changing contently. As Susie has a strict cancellation policy which means one has to cancel 7 days before check in, in order to get at least 50% refund (minus service fees) and all other options would be non-refundable. I tried to communicate with Susie 11 days prior to my arrival regarding finding options around this. After all with such an advance notice and communication, Susie could have offered me to cancel and keep the place for 50% of the time I was any ways going to be paying for and if later on the place would still be free I could go on booking it or if not I would need to find another solution. Her response to this was non accommodating to say it lightly. I do understand that Susie depends on the income (as we all do as hosts) but if a guest cancels in advance or even after the cancellation deadline time for such a long stay. Any host including Susie could and should work with the guest and their needs more so when they (the hosts) have the option to easily got other bookings in. When I asked Susie about suggestions or offers for my stay predicament and needing it to be more flexible she answered: "I don’t have any suggestions at the moment truly- sorry I’m trying to be flexible however I do depend on this income so can’t risk losing bookings as I’m sure you can understand so I have to stick to my policy " When she writes she is trying to be flexible I wandered where that flexibility is as she was not flexible at all nor was she even trying to give any suggestions. I opted to leave it at that point as it is, as I had to much going on and as it happened had to arrive 5 days earlier to San Diego and Susie's place was not available. So was busy looking for other solutions. On the day of arrival Susie did not meet me but left a long message telling me where to enter and the code to the place etc. When arriving it was easy to find the place but there where some renovation works going on in the garden to the guest house which...