I hate giving negative reviews and I don't want to make this into one. But I do want to provide an true and honest account of our stay at Monique's house. First, Monique is great, she communicated all the directions clearly and we had no issues checking in or out of the house. No complains what-so-ever with working with her.

However, there are definitely certain things good and bad that I want to point out. To start, the house itself is on the second floor of a two family home and has its own entrance into the building, which is nice. The furniture are nice and modern, although I wish some lamps would actually function (plug in, have light bulbs) rather than just there for decorative purposes only. There is one master bedroom with its own bathroom which is nice, a second bedroom with bunk beds, but my complain is for the third "bedroom" that is separated only by curtains right next to the living space. Since we have 3 couples staying here, I feel terrible for the couple that had to stay in this room and suffer the lack of privacy. I probably would not have book this house if I had had known this.
We do enjoy the balcony and make use of the hammock outside quite a bit, its a nice touch.
Now I come to my biggest complain about this house, which I know is totally out of Monique's control. The damn roosters! I think there should've been a warning on the listing, that you will be woken up by many many roosters at ungodly hours. We had a late flight into Honolulu and didnt get to the house until 1am, and didn't get to sleep until close to 2am. You can imagine our shock when the nature's alarm clock starts to go off at 5am, and there is no off button that we can find. This goes on for nearly 2 hours. There is one rooster that I swear sits right outside our window judging by how loud the sound echo throughout the entire house. We learn to close all the windows shut the next few nights, which help with the situation only slightly.
Another issues I want to bring up that is also out of the host's control is the terrible weather we experience everyday of our stay. This is more due to our unfamiliarity with the different weather patterns between the different sides of the island but a warning to future travelers expecting beautiful sunny weather you find in the travel brochures.

Overall I would describe the house as good and as described, the neighborhood (aka the 2 feet neighbors) as bad, and the weather as terrible.

Adam