In assessing my experience I'm struggling to think of any advantage to staying at Jonathan's property. The lodging seemed to have had no thought put toward the guest experience with the exception of a handwritten note offering an access code to a non-working WiFi network. Not to say the host was not responsive in email communications, which he was.

In reading the reviews, it seems guests have not relied on the property for a vacation stay, but have come for a single night while passing through. I have to say that a single night was a night too much and one of the poorer values I've found while staying on airbnb; standards and expectations were not in alignment with the listting's over-$100 a night price point.

The teensy one-room detached shack is worse for wear with scuffed walls and faded paint, cobwebs, and under the bed remnants left behind by past guests. The semi-updated bath is an improvement but nothing to write home about. Both rooms are delivered icy cold in November.

The kicker is the petite mattress plucked from the Depression era. Savor the Dust Bowl comfort level as you settle twenty inches into the sagging salvaged bed and its spent coils. Delight in its bountiless squeeks as it envelops you taco style. Know that it is there as it calls out to you at every turn you or your partner makes through the course of the (mostly sleepless) night. In the morning, awake to the sounds of the dog barking just outside your door.