I had booked this listing for three nights, as it was very close to a training workshop that I would be attending in Austin. I arrived on a Thursday after dark. There were no exterior lights on in the front of the house except for a dimly lit lamp post in the front yard. The neighborhood is dark and the houses are on larger lots and set back from the street. I had been instructed to park on the street and enter the property through the rear of the house. I walked up the long driveway and around the back of the house and at no time did a motion sensing light come on. There was no light at the back door but with the flashlight from my phone I managed to find the keys and unlock the back door. When I stepped into the darkened house there did not appear to be anyone else around. I found the bedroom and got settled in, but wondered if the owners would be home later in the evening. Incidentally, the hall light outside the bedroom door was also non-functioning. I felt a bit apprehensive and did not sleep well. The next morning when I left the house to attend my workshop I still had not seen nor heard anyone. That evening, when I returned to the house it was the same scenario - no lights, the house was dark and silent. Finally on Saturday I texted the owner to ask if they were gone for the weekend and should I expect anyone else to be at the house. She texted back and said that they were out of town and that no one would be at the house until Sunday. On Saturday evening I arrived at the house at dusk to find a car parked in the driveway that had NOT been there earlier in the day, after I had been told that no one would be at the house. I was a little freaked out so I texted the owner again to ask about the car in the driveway and she texted that their daughter who attended UT had taken the car to get it serviced and then returned it to the house. Well, that would have been nice to know, especially since she said that NO ONE would be at the house. After that incident I felt completely uncomfortable staying in the home, so I packed up my things and left a night early. I found the entire experience very inhospitable and a lot of my uneasiness could have been alleviated if the hosts had only COMMUNICATED with me and left some lights on! Other observations: the guest bedroom appeared to be vacated room of aforementioned college-aged daughter. It was pretty bare-bones and, with the exception of the bed (which was very comfortable), it appeared to look pretty much the way it looked after she moved to college - posters on the wall, a dusty bookshelf with AP English books on it, a little desk. etc. The room and the bathroom across the hall were fairly clean - the house appeared to be about 40 years old and hasn't had a lot of updating. All in all, I found the entire experience to be very disconcerting.