Our host kept in touch & did call us to find out the time we were arriving and left fresh milk in the fridge, and arranged for an after hours key pick-up.
The neighborhood was good - it was downtown and walking distance to everything.
However we were not given the house we had booked - Emma did notify us to say she had changed our original booking from this 2BR house to a 1BR apartment with a spare bunk bed in the living room.