Derek is a great owner! We are a family with three adults and three kids from China, we wish to live a in the family and get some experience of local culture, so we chose Derek's house because of the good comments from the other guests. Derek is a very kind and friendly guy and help us so much, I could say help us everything we need here, pick us up from the airport and help me to rent the cars from downtown and negotiate with the renting rate of the car, take us to the supermarket to buy what we need, help my second son to the kind garden and all of the information about what we need including our weekend tourist for couples of days here. So because of his help, everything here is very easy for my family. Even he help my kid's safety seat from his friend. I really appreciate for everything here. And also We enjoyed the time stay with his family his son Aaron and his daughter in law Jordy and also the visiting time of Auckland.And also the house we stayed is lovely and cleaning, and has a very nice dog called Joe that my kids love him very much and also bring Joe for walking on the nearby beach. We really have a good time and nice memory here, thank you Derek, thank you Kiwi.