The physical structure of the house provided for a comfortable stay and the location was very convenient and quiet.
While I understand that the house is old there are some very simple and inexpensive fixes that could make the rental space much more appealing - i.e spackle and paint holes in the walls, add knobs to cabinets where they are missing, use kilz to remove mold on wall outside tub, etc.
Also, be very careful about parking. When we arrived, Steve and his wife were out of town and they had a friend check us in. She was very nice and we asked her if where we parked was ok. She said it was fine to leave the car there. The next morning we woke up to a $73 ticket because it was street sweeping day. In the spot where parked, we could not see the signs down the block on either side of our car due to both distance from the signs and trees hiding the signs. When I messaged the host about this, she was very apologetic and said that had they been there when we checked they would have warned us about street sweeping. Of course this excuse did us no good.