Positives: An air conditioner, a comfortable bed, and a nice small shower.
Negatives: Host doesn't provide any amenitites. Only a small wooden cafe table and two uncomfortable wooden slat chairs to sit on. No soap for the shower, no dishwashing soap for dishes, no coffee for the inexpensive coffee machine, no welcoming snacks or other things that make you feel like this is a host who cares about the comfort of his guests. Even small things like maps to Austin center, and information about public transportation for people like us who flew to Austin and don't have a car, would have made us feel at least a little like the host cared.
The small house, according to the host's site, is in a safe area. It is in an alley between two rows of residential houses. The front porch upon our arrival wasn't at all clean. There were two metal chairs, along with debris from the trees still on the ground and porch, that might not have been cleaned up in months. We couldn't sit outside, just as we couldn't sit inside on the hard slat chairs. We would have liked to had some coffee either inside or out, after our long flight and Uber from the airport, had the host been kind enough to provide any for us.