Since I've been here for so much time (three months and a half), I think it is important that I share a detailed opinion on this location, as well as some of the experiences I had. I was here to spend a short period in the US as part of my PhD research program, so my review should be especially useful to international students/travelers/scholars to help them make a decision.
Overall I think this is a great house, perfectly furnished and with all what is needed, not only to stay for some day but also to live here for a long period of time. The services are great and the host is always willing to help. The bedroom and the common rooms are comfortable enough to spent time for studying, working and so on. The spaces are huge, and even if the house is crowded with many guests, there is always some available space.
To be more effective, I'll try to summarize my review using some metrics:
- POSITION: if you need to go to OSU almost every day as I did, but you don't have a car, this house is great, since the bus station is less than 1 minute walk away. However, beware that supermarkets are not very close, so be prepared for some alternative solution about this (I got groceries deliveries for instance, and it worked fine). If you have a car instead there is no issue.
- NOISE: some other guests have already pointed it out: this place can get noisy. Since walls and floors are made of wood, this is inevitable, so you can literally hear everything (I mean it, and in some isolated cases it was quite annoying...). This becomes a big problem in the night if there are disrespectful guests, and statistically it is likely there will be from time to time. If you are very sensitive during sleep, I warmly suggest some earplugs, that should solve most of the issues. If the situation becomes unbearable (it happened to me only twice), just contact the host, and he'll be willing to find a solution.
Side comment about being disrespectful: I hated when people left corridor lights on in the middle of the night. This can be very annoying if you are light-sensitive when sleeping, not considering also the waste of energy (people are not enough aware about this).
- TEMPERATURE: since I come from a relatively temperate country and I am sensitive to cold weather, I find it great that the temperature in the house is almost always within very desirable levels.
- HYGIENE: let's say I am quite choosy when it comes to hygiene, so everything less than perfect is very bad from my point of view. Since I never had to complain about cleanliness, I assure this place is very good from this point of view.