I really wanted to leave 5 stars as it is such a nice house on an amazing piece of property, but a few things made me go with 4 stars instead that I will highlight later on. Location is perfect in the heart of hill country. Probably 20 breweries and distilleries with a 5 mile drive. The cat Jaspers is super friendly. He’ll just come and go as he pleases. The beds are very comfortable. The kitchen is easily the nicest kitchen I have ever used. Free coffee and fairly well stocked pantry for things you might need like spices, cooking ingredients, etc. is a nice touch. Kurt, the owner, is an outstanding host. He communicates well and responds quickly. For example, there were a couple issues that came up during our stay and he was all over trying to resolve it ASAP. The 33 acre property is fun to explore. Kurt was even nice enough to give us a tour one morning and point out a few things we had overlooked when exploring on our own. He gathered about a dozen eggs from the chicken coup and we had fresh scrambled eggs for breakfast!
Three issues that came up:
1.	We weren’t given the passcode to unlock the front door until 13 minutes after check-in… maybe I’m being nit-picky, but every other AirBnB I have ever stayed at has given me the passcode either the day before or the morning of check-in. Honestly, it didn’t end up being a huge issue, but for how much you pay for the place it would be nice to be able to check-in on-time.
2.	The TV and entertainment system is overly complicated for a rental. We had several engineers in our group and even they couldn’t figure out how to use the technology. Once we downloaded the ELAN8 app, watched a 10 minute You-Tube tutorial, and then had a 20 minute conversation and text exchanges with the owner, only after all of that were we able to somewhat figure it out. However, several disappointing features: there is no cable TV or streaming service made available to you so unless you have your own service you won’t be able to get anything on the TVs. The downstairs Movie room with large projector doesn’t have any way to do screen mirroring (could easily be fixed if Kurt adds an Apple TV there) so it basically rendered that room worthless for us. We wanted to watch NFL football playoffs. The only way to do that was to stream them from your phone assuming you have a service that already does that and you can only stream to the other 2 TVs in the house. So that was disappointing that we couldn’t watch the game on the big screen downstairs. In the main family room there isn’t a TV, only 1 outside so if you are hanging out on the main floor just know the only TV is outside. Which is fine if the weather is nice, but if it is super cold or hot outside it would be nice to have an indoor TV there. Perhaps, Kurt could add a large screen TV above the fireplace?
3.	Had some issues with the hot tub. We warmed it up to 102-104, but then upon entering the hot tub it quickly got very cold. Ice cold water was bubbling up from the bottom of the hot tub. So after about 2 minutes in the “hot tub” we quickly had to abandon that idea to avoid hypothermia. We spoke with Kurt and he mentioned that the “freeze protect” came on which overrides the valve control and was forcing cold pool water in the hot tub. Kurt told us this feature comes on automatically at anything less than 45 degrees outside so just beware if you are renting during the winter months you could experience similar difficulty.
I will say in spite of these issues we truly enjoyed our experience at the house. It’s very spacious and super quiet, virtually no neighbors since you are at the end of the road, and makes for a great place to stay. Kurt is great and I feel if we stayed there again it would most likely be a 5 star experience. I highly recommend this place.