Lovely house in a magical setting, ruined by a terrible host. The host was not a great communicator - sometimes responding in minutes, sometimes not responding at all, and sometimes unfriendly. The house is a charming family house, the location is wonderful, the generous garden is fantastic, but the yard was full of dog poop and not just a few poops, but at least 16 or 17 very LARGE poops scattered on the lawn plus a pooper scooper that had another 5 or 6 poops rotting away in it. When I reached out to Cody, the host, about the issue he claimed he had done a walk through before our arrival and that he hadn’t noticed the issue. In response he offered to waive the fee for heating the pool… except that we had never asked for the pool to be heated because LA was going through a heatwave. He also said that he would send the owner’s adult daughter to clean the lawn… a couple hours later she arrived and picked up a couple more poops, but also let the dog back out on the lawn to relieve himself. After a couple days the gardeners finally came by in the early morning to do a thorough clean up of the lawn, which was appreciated, but they also spent more than half the day in the yard, without masks on, which meant that we couldn’t enjoy the yard or the pool until well after lunch. Cody had stated that the owner did not share any common space with the rental house, which is true, but it should be said that the “guest house” which she resides in is a part of the house and it overlooks the entire yard and pool area and looks into the kitchen, dining, and living rooms. Also the wifi was out for about half a day, which normally wouldn’t be an issue except that there was no cell service in the canyon, so, it meant that we were cut off and not able to work from the house. I met the owner and she seemed like a truly lovely person. She has a special home in a great location, so, with only a minimal amount of effort they could make the place magical for guests. I believe that we happened to catch them at a bad time, but unfortunately that meant it was still at our expense.