A terrible experience.
Cons: The host requested payment via PayPal. The payment was made twice. As confirmed by my bank, on each occasion the host reversed the payments (i.e he refused to accept the payments). We had no choice therefore but to accept the hosts request to cancel our booking, leaving us scrambling to find alternative accomodation on arrival. The host then proceeded to issuing an invoice for $1,539.00. The invoice is still active on my PayPal and is showing as overdue.