All in all, the house was nice.. but our host micro-managed us while we stayed, which caused friction and an argument between my wife and I. We want to do our trip over after this experience.
Our issue was that, allegedly, we left a light on one day when we went out and he was messaging us about it while we were out. Next day… he’s sending a message at 700am saying he noticed a light on for 24 hours.. ok, well, if you’re system is that neat… turn it off. You can see it?? But you can’t turn it off?? Then we get back and there was no light on. Typically, hosts are contacting the guest unless the guest has an issue, which is why I call this micro-management.
Not to mention, we had a legitimate and provable reason to ask for amnesty on late-notice reschedule, being that our daughter broke her arm and he took a hard stance that left us with very few options outside of losing money all together or losing money all together… needless to say, we forced the issue and went anyway. He had the right to do whatever he wanted, but I feel he wasn’t really interested in exploring options with us.