My bf says "It could've been worse" but our friend/roomie said it was the worst AirBnb he's stayed in so make of that what you will.
If you need a place to crash and will be out most of the time/don't plan on cooking, it's fine for a couple of days. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend.
The 3 of us had a month long stay and let me tell you, this place was not ready for that. I chatted with Noel previously about the kitchen, so we knew it was a covered outdoor one and weren't expecting the Ritz or anything, but he didn't tell us what he meant by kitchen was an unfinished door on seesaws with a giant microwave, a barely working hotplate and the smallest mini fridge that was half broken on the back porch. The "kitchen sink" was in the garage that was filled with junk that was on the other side of the porch. When I was upset about this, he told us we could leave and then uploaded pics after we were already there, which was super shady.
The beds were old and creaky and the pillows were sweat stained and old. The dresser drawers didn't work and had his stuff still inside. We had to threaten to leave so he'd replace the fridge, which he replaced with another, albeit bigger, mini-fridge, while he knew the refund policy favored the host. His camping stove was low on gas, and instead of replacing it, he balked at the $3 canister.
When my bf asked for some curtains to block sunlight at the desk (we were working remotely during the week), he suggested my bf move around the house to avoid the glare. The front facing bedroom did have some light filtering curtains that you could see through, but we didn't even bother asking for an upgrade after his response to the desk. Noel also basically stopped answering messages after we arrived or would take days/weeks.
We accidentally met a contractor that worked for Noel and he was not surprised at all at our problems. Apparently he's a slumlord in a nearby neighborhood, so we probably had it better than anyone else who rents from him.
But I guess it wasn't all bad- he allowed our dog (granted we have an angel of a pup, seriously), sadly this was one of the nicer places if you don't want to pay a fortune in Puna, the house was close to Makuu Point (highly recommend- very pretty), and the backyard was nice to look out at. He possibly also "ate" the HI taxes, but I'm not sure. We were about to book with AirBnb when he told us that somehow it didn't include the local taxes and he planned to charge us separately for that. After we refused, he did lower the rent to still include the taxes but reflect the posted price so that was alright.
Anyway, this experience could've been much better, even with the crappy kitchen, had Noel tried to actually work with us a little more, but he didn't so I won't recommend this for anyone else.