Overall our stay would have been awesome but we encountered few surprises before and during our stay in the house. 3 days before arrival we came to know that the house does not have microwave. When we messaged the owner she said "everyone you heat in the microwave you can heat on the stove :-)". Weird reply. We ignored it as this was our first summer vacation outside and we booked the house for 7 days by paying close to $2500.
Our check in was smooth. House was cleaned too overall. Next morning we realized that there is no coffee machine. When we messaged the owner she tried to help via messages to locate the one but we could not find it. Her response was "it is possible that the last guest misplaced it in which case you must look elsewhere". Weird response.
Anyways we had to order coffee from outside everyday. Next day when we were sitting on the deck on backyard we noticed someone getting into the house. We were literally shocked. We then looked for any information left by the owner in the house. Then we found a sheet on kitchen's top shelf which said there is someone lives in the basement and share the laundry area. We felt little awkward by the surprises but we ignored as it was our family time and we went out after a long time. We also noticed that outside the house there was a swing and bench shared with community so folks in the community were stopping by and using it. It was a privacy issue for us because whoever was using the swing could see inside the house if the curtains are opened. We tried not opening the windows and curtains and kept ignoring.
There were few other surprises not worth mentioning but the final one was really shocking. We left house around 11:00 AM and while we were driving back home we started getting messages from owner that her crew told here that there is a broken tile in her bathroom and she started blaming us. We literally cleaned the house nicely and did not have any hard luggage with us which could break the tiles. We told her it is not us for sure because before leaving the house I first and then my wife looked into entire house if we need to clean. We did not see any broken tile. She then said oh my stairs also has scratches. My cleaning crew just told me. And we were like "owner is really upto something". Then she said we should be paying her several hundred dollars for the damage we did not do. She then threatened us to get airbnb involved and she involved. Airbnb did a great job listening to my side of story and finally closed the ticket. Owner kept insisting to pay several hundred dollars. On the way back to our home it felt really bad and we lost all our good memories for this vacation.
I am not saying I don't recommend this house. My intension is to make folks aware of those surprises and if you can take the picture of the house before and after and send it to the owner it would be great. House in general is fun for kids.