Owner's Response: Reviews are very important to us. I am sorry that you found our little piece of paradise to be just good for roughing it. However, many previous and returning guests would disagree about having to “rough it” in this house. It can be best described by many as perfectly imperfect. It is an older home in an older very safe neighborhood. The house is fully furnished with a fully furnished kitchen, full-sized washer/dryer, wifi, large satellite tv and is exactly as the pictures depict. It has brand new kitchen countertops. It also has a new living room rug and just installed living room blinds on all ceiling to floor windows. The house is also professionally cleaned before and after each guest. I do have to have to apologize for the smell out on the deck. A recent fire ant mound close to the deck was treated and we didn't realize that the treatment's unique odor would be offensive. The particular treatment will not be used again. Spring weather in Texas can be all over the place and unfortunately as you are aware the storms made their arrivals both directly before and during your stay creating a mess of leaves and small twigs on the deck. We did sustain some damage that has required external updates to the roof and deck. We are currently working on that and will have those completed soon. As far as the issue of the silverware and kitchen utensils we have indeed replaced a lot of the items that had seen better days. I do want to remind our guests to bring their paper supplies with them. Initially, we do provide 1 roll of paper towels, a couple of kitchen trash bags and 1 - 2 rolls of toilet paper to get you started. We don't want anyone left stranded before getting to the store. But know that the closest store is less than 5 minutes away. Larger stores are less than 10 minutes from the house. We do make ourselves available in case any guest has an issue with anything during the duration of their stay so that we can rectify immediately.