Mark is a great host and the place is good, though we still had some unpleasant experience at his place which would be nice if can be avoided in future:
1. when we checked in, there were dog feces on the floor in our bedroom, we told Mark about this and he came to fix it.
2. we got a citation for the street parking in front of his place due to no parking permit, the citation was created just 10min after we checked in when I was about to fetch the permit from the kitchen, plus we were completely distracted by the floor thing. This strict parking policy is so inconvenient, it would be better to add a bold reminder about it to the guests in future, instead of saying "I left a parking permit in the kitchen drawer, in case you need it", I have to say this sentence is misleading, in fact, you must need it.
One thing we did get as a compensation I think for all these is that Mark let us late checkout for free.