The house is newly renovated, in a safe area, and you can see the ocean from the kitchen window. Emily is responsive and delightful. As some other prior guests indicated, there is a need to increase the availability of hot water given there were nine adults in the home when we were there. (Host family and two apartments of guests.) Our party of 5 decided to take off one star because there are no blinds in the family room which serves as a makeshift third bedroom with a sleeper sofa. The street and security lights are quite bright and shine in from two directions. Another sleeping issue lead us to take off an additional star. The house is on a very busy road with traffic letting up for ONLY 4 hours during each of the nights we were there. Crazy, but there is a local culture to "soup up" your vehicle with special mufflers to intentionally make your vehicle LOUD. Needless to say, we didn't sleep well at all. Although the fans in the house are awesome, we needed to keep the windows open bc there is no A/C and it was warm even at night. But that meant that we couldn't avoid the noisy pick up trucks and cars. The host can't really do anything about this culture, and installing/operating A/C window units would be expensive. Perhaps provide noise cancelling devices for everyone and comfortable eye masks for the family room? Only one of us had these things on hand.