The house is very nice and clean as advertised. However, our experience with the host unfortunately ruined our stay there. Some things to note if you do stay here:
1. The host spends most of the days in the detached garage, so if you desire more privacy, this is not the place for you. Every day when we took out garbage or recycling she was there working in the garage. Often hammering noise can be heard inside the master bedroom if windows are open.
2. Be prepared to pay for any accidents at all, no matter how small. During the course of our two week stay, I accidentally broke one small salad dish and one beer glass. I informed the host and was immediately sent a bill for $26 to replace them.
3. While I respect the host's rule of no food or drink upstairs, please do note that this also includes water. So no drinking water upstairs during your stay.
4. Since I was originally staying 3 weeks, I asked the host if I could pay after each week for an extra cleaning service, as I wouldn't have time to clean the bathrooms, change the sheets, etc. She said her cleaning lady charged $180 per visit. I paid in advance, and it turns out the cleaning lady was the host, and she cleaned the house in 2.5 hours. For me, $180 is a high price for that type of cleaning. In addition, she told me the bathrooms were dirty and sent more than one message about it, including telling me that if they were that dirty at check out, she would charge me an extra cleaning fee. This was both upsetting and confusing to me, as I was paying extra to have them cleaned, plus they did not seem dirty to me other than the normal week long bathroom build up. After receiving those messages, it was clear to me that this was not the place for us to stay.
5. Midway through my stay, I received a request for funds from the host through Airbnb, for the cost of an extra guest. I declined the request, as I had registered myself and my 4 children, and we were the only ones staying there. She asked why I declined, since during one of the chats we had when I took out the garbage she said I had mentioned having 5 kids. I do have 5 kids, and as I reminded her, I also told her that my oldest was living in California and not with us. I was surprised that she would suspect I had more people than I had registered, plus would have appreciated if she had asked me about it before requesting funds (almost $1000) from me.
5. Upon checkout, I made sure the house was spotless, and took many pictures as proof after her comments on the bathroom cleanliness. I still received an invoice from the host for $319 to refinish a bedside table that she said we ruined. She said it was wet beneath the lamp, that there was a mark in the shape of a large cell phone that overheated while charging on the table (this was her theory) and a very small white scratch. My daughter who stayed in the room does not have a large cell phone, nor did the host provide pictures of the table prior to our check in to show that it was in fact us who damaged it. In fact, the picture she did provide of the damage barely showed anything at all. I ended up paying the money in order to avoid having to deal with the host any further, and to move on with my trip. Please note that if the host requests money through Venmo for something like this, as she suggested with me, this is against Airbnb policy as it should be processed through their platform (as I found out when I called them to discuss this situation). She also told me that if she processed the damage payment through Airbnb rather than Venmo I would have trouble renting in the future from other hosts, as this would "follow" me. Airbnb did clarify this and told me this is not the case due to privacy rights. I did tell the host that I wanted to process everything through Airbnb, and that is what I did.
6. I ended up checking out one week early, even though I did not get any money back for the week I did not stay there. For me it was worth it to move even without the refund after our terrible experience.