We rented the entire house for a week. The house is historic, beautiful with updated bathrooms and kitchen. We invited our friends to stay with us. There are plenty rooms in this house for us to spread out and also get together. There is a convenient store nearby and it's easy to drive to grocery stores in the community. The views are fabulous in this area. We had a great time.
However, here is the hassle I have had to deal with in the past half a year, which is really frustrating for me and has completely tainted my view of this house.
As a responsible human being who likes to have peace of mind, especially on vacation, I purchased the travel insurance Homeaway provided in case anything happened. Unfortunately, we did have an incident and broke a porcelain fishbowl (or furniture vase) during our stay. We reported to the manager and provided the insurance details such that the vase could be replaced.
However, when the insurance company tried to obtain the necessary documents from the house to get the official price to pay for the vase they were met with continued refusal to provide the relevant information.
This involved numerous calls and emails from both my insurance company and me, but we never got the needed documents from the manager of the house. As a result of the broken vase they refused to return my deposit even though we made many efforts to get it replaced through my insurance and only failed to do so due to their incompetence.
Overall, I do not think this house is ready for any customs want to try to have a relaxed vacation, despite the beauty of the place.