This was not a good experience. The short:
-expectations were not met
-host was not responsive
The long: We arrived on the property around 10p. Had to navigate through overgrown shrubbery to get the door (his description said it was lit but definitely not enough to make you feel secure in a new setting). By his use of the word cottage we expected a guest house it was actually an apartment built on to a house. When finally got to the front door an A/C unit greeted us taking up most of the entry way. We are both fairly fit people and had to turn to the side to get in the front door. To bring in our carry-on suitcases we decided to open the other half of the door. Once we got our stuff back inside we had trouble latching the second door back in place therefore couldn't lock the door for the night. Very nerve wracking for a neighborhood you are not familiar with. Also, the apartment was very poorly lit and took us several minutes to even find how to the lights. One of the two small lights in the living room was out and one light was out in the bathroom. Upon further inspection of the apartment we noticed two of the walls were unfinished. One looked like dry wall and the other looked like particle board. I don't think it is ridiculous to expect your Airbnb to be finished before someone rents it out. Realizing right away expectations were not being met we reached out to Eric through the Airbnb app like he requested in his profile. He never responded. A day went by without any response. On our second full day there we noticed that the pool had even more shrubbery in it and started getting a weird film with small bugs in it. My husband looked for the pool net and couldn't find it. This time he reached out to him through phone. Eric never answered or responded to the voicemail. Finally my husband was able to find the pool net and started trying to clean the pool so we could use it. A couple minutes into trying to clean the pool my husband wasn't getting very far because the net had a huge hole in it!
Like I said, bad experience.
If you do decide to rent this:
Very small for 4 people. The one bedroom has a kind size bed in it so their isn't room to move around. The living room is tiny. You maybe able to sleep 4 people but you won't have any place for their stuff or moving around.