This review should be taken with a grain of salt due to complications caused by the pandemic.
I booked this house 1.5 years before the check in date, but our event got pushed back due to the pandemic. The host was kind enough to allow us to reschedule and keep the reservation. At the time I had thought that meant the host got a big year long loan from us, but as I understand it Air BnB actually holds that money. This delay caused a massive mistake that caused a pretty significant difference between our expectations and reality.
First off, the house is beautiful. Very well furnished, extremely high-tech (almost to a fault), clean, tons of space, good water pressure, etc etc. Nearly every room has a balcony even, it truly is a wonderful place to stay. That being said, there were many broken appliances which the host had trouble fixing during the pandemic. These included the dishwasher, ice maker, one water heater (there are 3), the surround sound system, and two door locks (each room has its own high-tech lock). Dustin, one of the hosts, came by soon after we arrived to walk us through the house and point these things out. We were unaware of these problems until after we arrived, but we were told we were the first booking in a long time due to Covid so it's understandable that there may have been no funds to fix these. At this point in time they may be fixed.
Speaking of Dustin, he was very helpful and nice but he also walked in without announcement to deliver a speaker on the second day of our stay. He had told us he'd be by but he didn't knock, and didn't tell us when. So it was a big surprise when he was suddenly in the house. Vi was not a very communicative host, so we were glad to have Dustin.
The larger issue is that when we arrived there was somebody living there. We rented the entire place, but an entire floor of the back house had supposedly been rented out to somebody else months before and we were only informed as I was boarding my flight to Austin. Far too late for us to cancel or find a new place. When we informed Vi that this was unacceptable she brushed it off and told us not to worry, the tenant was friendly. She offered to refund the cleaning fee on a $4200 rental for the loss of an entire floor, though we were at that point missing a few beds for the people coming. That was very frustrating, but they supplied some Air mattresses so we made it work.
All in all the stay was great, house was wonderful, but the communication from the hosts was far too lacking, many appliances were broken, it was a surprise having a stranger there, and I wasn't happy with the solution that the host was proposing. If those issues are solved then this place will continue to be a gem.