I'll start off with the positives: Toby's place has a wonderful location - easy striking distance from Kailua town and its restaurants/bars/shops etc., and an easy drive to the beaches north of town, but not down in the touristy thick of it. The view is also wonderful - full ocean view from the lanai, living room and primary bedroom. The unit has a great layout, with a nice, open floor plan living room/kitchen with high ceilings, and a nice, tranquil yard. Toby and Chelsea were also very good communicators, and very accommodating (setting up a crib for our toddler before our arrival), and check-in and check-out were smooth.
However, we found that the unit had not been property cleaned before our arrival (cobwebs on the kitchen faucet, a fair amount of dust, the shower drain had hair sitting on it, Brita pitcher was dirty). We also noticed that some of the furnishings were fairly worn (holes in upholstery and in bedding, lots of rust on kitchen stool bases). Finally, while the unit had most necessities, we did not find it to have been very well stocked (trash bag in place of a trash can in the kitchen, we could not locate a kitchen sponge, and were told that we had to obtain our own toilet paper after the first roll).
We think that this AirBnB has so much potential, but it did not quite meet our needs. At the same time, it does have some real positives, and we can understand why it has such positive reviews (and we did very much appreciate Toby and Chelsea's communication and accommodating nature). Given that our stay was during Ironman week, I suspect the rates may have been a bit higher than usual for this unit, so while it wasn't necessarily a great value for our stay, I suspect it is a better value the rest of the year.