I'm sorry to say that we don't understand other people's 4-5 star reviews. We had so many issues! The space itself was great especially considering that we had 6 people staying there. It was a nice location, dark interior as expected, and seemingly-nice host - but that's where the good stuff ends. Here's a little list of the things we found objectionable. Top of the list was the mouldy showerhead - disgusting! We barely used the shower :( :(
- electrical wires exposed at living room light switch, at child height
- mould in shower base and on walls
- mould on shower head where water comes out
- rusty nails on fallen fence posts sticking straight up in the (overgrown) garden
- porches seem to want to fall down with many rotten boards
- several windows don't open
- one window that does open is missing the weights so window crashes down (upstairs bedroom)
- door handles falling off - particularly in bathrooms
- dishwasher rails broken
- lots of old food in the fridge upon our arrival, like already milk that expired several days before our arrival
- kitchen sink spray gun broke - got stuck in the on position - owner of house didn't fix it when we requested - we had to use tweezers to pull the mechanism back to stop the flow so we wouldn't get sprayed every time we wanted to use the kitchen sink
- air mattress not set up on arrival when he knew we would use it, we had to search around and finally found it in the closet
- the only extra sheets to make bed for said air mattress were stained old flannel bedsheets, the cleaner left clean sheets 24 hrs later on the back porch, which we were told about another 24 hrs later
- running around house looking for towels - some in the clothes dryer
- downstairs toilet constantly running - we had to remove cistern lid to reposition stopcock with every flush just so the cistern would fill
- lots of cobwebs
- owner's mail gets delivered every day and is not collected up for days
- overall smell of must and mould (and non-opening windows)
- tatty collection of old and used toiletries left piled in shower
- shattered glass in the picture frame in the bathroom next to light switch
- bbq on back deck yes, but no gas for it!