Difficult to say what to expect. I know I expected a room in a family's apartment with children around who might play with my children and certainly two local adults who could advise us briefly about Rio. Plus two cats who would remind my 2 children of our pets left behind, in UK, for this trip.
What we got was a room in a vacated family home, plus 2 cats. Which would have been great if we were locals but as I wrote when booking, we were not and needed some help.
When booking Bruno said he'd be happy to show us around when he returned in January, which unfortunately was no use, I told him so and he did say his mother would be around to host us. We never saw his mother, to my knowledge and despite responses being prompt upto 4 days before our arrival we did not hear from Bruno or his lady who to this day, not on the night of arrival nor during our stay. I'm not 100% sure of airbnb's message system but it looks like my messages have not been read yet so maybe the family is away from the Internet.
The 2 cats had been left there which was both a plus for my children and a minus for us early morning when the cats wanted feeding and we didn't know where their food was. Some sort of information about where the cat vomit cleaning equipment was, would also have been useful.