Unfortunately I can't say I'm happy with our stay in Richard's house.
There were several severe issues from the beginning:
1. There was no electricity in the kitchen area: exhaust hood, gas stove ignitor, power sockets, backdrop light were not working.
2. There was water licking through the bathroom sink.
3. There was no plug in the bath.
4. Ants were coming through the floor.
At first I've only thought that I cannot find how to turn on power sockets in the kitchen and Richard didn't what the problem was. When I have figured it out myself and found other issues mentioned above, Richard told me that his housekeep will come the next day, but no one came. Next day he told me his housekeep was gone to England for doctor appointment and offered to further help nor estimates when the issues can be addressed. Only after I said I will involve AirBnB, we had some constructive conversation: there was a bag with extension leads for kitchen appliances, but these were so dirty that I couldn't use them. We agreed that Jo, his other friend, will come (on the forth day of our stay) to bring us clean extension leads, bath plug and fix the leaking sink.
She did came, brought the missing items, fixed sink and also tried to stop the ants. They made a new hole though. However I can only thank Jo for her efforts, she did her best to make our stay bearable.
Other issues with the house were:
1. Shower downstairs, some kitchen drawers, bathroom upstairs, one bedroom upstairs, the balcony and courtyard were quite dirty and don't seem to have been renovated just this year.
2. Bathrooms were moldy.
3. Brooms and plastic dryer were broken, Jo has brought us new broom, though.
Overall I can see two underlying causes:
1. House is only half done.
2. It was poorly managed.