It was a very beautiful house, with good location, close to the beach, not so close to the metro, but had a bike station in the nearby, so it was pretty easy to get around.
The AirBnB was advertised as a shared living with common spaces and private rooms. It turned out that me and my friend were the only guests and the family used the house as a weekend house. They were nice, but it was very loud and busy during the weekends, plus they were organizing brunches in the house for other people.
The house was very clean when we arrived and they said they would clean every week, which wasn´t really happening, so we had to take a responsibility for keeping the entire house clean.
There were recurrent problems with the airconditioner not working, no hot water or no cold water in the showers, extremely loud noise coming from the machines just outside of my window. The host tried to fix these problems, but they were coming back.
Overall it was a nice place to stay, but unrealisticly expensive for what you get. You can find calmer and more livable places for much cheaper in Rio. Also when we had friends visiting, sleeping in the same room as us, they had to pay an extra fee, which in itself was higher than a nice hotel room for even two people. The last weeks they were emptying then house and selling the furnitures, so the utilities were not the same as when we booked the airbnb.
This experience makes me not wanting to book more through AirBnB, as they are not controlling if the advertised housing and utilities are accurate, which brings a huge uncertanity, as you do not know what you are actually booking. Additionally when you are booking for a long-stay, it is even more uncertain, as you are paying a big amount of money in advance for something you do not even know. There is also no possibility to unbook, without loosing a lot of money. We did not receive any useful help from AirBnB during the stay. So you kind of have no choice, just to accept that the terms are not as expected and still pay a big amount of money.