My mom and I stayed here for 5 days in July and while the location was great, I would not come back as it was hard to communicate with Sam and the listing was misleading. A few weeks before our stay, I reached out to see if it was OK if my brother and his girlfriend stayed one night with us. The place was advertised as housing 4 so we just wanted to confirm as I figured we would be asked to pay extra and needed to make sure we brought enough cash. Sam said it was fine and asked for $75 extra for cleaning. About 2 days before our stay, I reached out to Sam for details about check in but didn't receive a response. I reached out again the day after and he responded and was kind enough to allow for my brother to check in early to drop off their luggage. Once my mom and I arrived, we gave Sam the extra fee and were told confusingly that he needed it for cleaning the second room as otherwise he wouldn't need to clean upstairs if there was only 2 of us staying. The place was advertised as allowing us to use the whole house, with one big bed downstairs and another bedroom with 2 doubles upstairs - so it was advertised as accommodations for 4 people. While originally the plan was just for me and my mom, if there was another bed avaliable then I wasn't planning to share the one downstairs with my mom. We didn't mind having to pay extra but it was really bizarrely explained and made me question if he would have cleaned the upstairs beds if my brother's plans had changed and if he would have charged me extra for using a second room otherwise. Sam explained that there was a written up policy on the listing saying that each new person increased the fee but we could not find it. Regardless, it was listed as guests having access to the whole house, so I should be able to use a second bed and not question if it would be cleaned or feel like I might be charged extra.
He then showed me how to lock the doors and use the shower as both are not intuitive and many guests have had questions (for good reason). He hadn't mentioned anything about the bath to me when we checked in (which had a not intuitive drain opener) which we had to call him about on our last night as i couldn't figure out how to drain the tub. Sam was kind enough to come quickly to show me, but I think if so many guests have had questions on how to use things, that he should just write them down as communication with a language barrier was tricky.
We also asked him about how to turn on the air-conditioning as this was a main reason we chose this place due to having visited during a heat wave. The listing said there was air-conditioning available but this felt misleading as it only turns on automatically once it hits a certain temperature, so it felt kind of pointless as we couldn't alter the temperature nor turn it on despite it being quite hot. We didn't spend much time at the house but did notice that the listing must have been part of the original main house as our main bedroom was full of cooking smells from their kitchen - delicious but not necessarily what you want when you are trying to go to bed. We also got super scared one early evening as the house mad a loud screeching noise, only to find Sam watering with a hose outside - so beware of the sounds and smells one might get with VERY close neighbors.
Lastly, we struggled with checking out as Sam had said he would come in person at 10am. We had a flight to catch so were ready and waiting for him. He had an appointment that he forgot to tell us about so was 15 minutes late and hadn't answered my calls. He just locked the door and took the keys so I feel like we could've had a simpler check out process that didn't require him to meet up.
Overall, I personally wouldn't stay here again due to inconveniences with communication, check in/check out, and non intuitive accommodations, but Sam was really nice and the location is amazing.