I booked the house for my family to stay while in Austin while visiting my son who lives in the area. It was 6 of us total, so the appeal of the number of beds is why we chose this house.
It honestly isn't equipped to have this many people stay at the house. It does sleep 8, but when we checked in there's only a small kitchen table and only 3 chairs available, one was apparently broken with no additional chairs. We had to go to my son's apartment and use a few of his fold out chairs, if we were guests without someone like him in town we would have had to go buy our own as the host wasn't available until after dinner with no communication up front that this would be the case. There's only 1 couch to sit on, so entertaining within the house is difficult. Only 1 lounge chair outside, so don't expect to readily enjoy the back yard, however it does have potential.
We did address this to Ben, he came on our second day and tried to smooth things over, but it honestly felt like he wasn't taking ownership of the lack of amenities. It was either previous guests stealing or breaking things, or that there were folding chairs but were left out in the rain last week and broke (it hadn't rained in weeks, we checked), but overall just left a bad taste in our mouth that he didn't really care. After talking with him, he did say he would bring fold out chairs that day, and did bring them but not until the next day.
The kitchen is ill equipped, for example there are no sharp knives or kitchen utensils typically seen for cooking. Again, if it wasn't for my son being in the city to use his utensils, we wouldn't have been able to cook without going to buy our own.
I don't mean to come across as "nit-picky" as there's several other items (i.e. the washing machine literally took 6 hours), however overall the space just isn't up to the standards that I was hoping to see when renting a house through AirBnB for a stay. As what we experienced, it's equipped to be nothing more than a bunch of beds for people to sleep.