I pride myself on being a patient and tolerant person and hate to leave negative reviews, but feel this rental deserves an honest one. Before getting into the reasons behind the 2/5 stars, I would like to state that communicating with Marcus was 100% positive - Marcus was responsive and pleasant.
This house is, however, just not set up comfortably for vacation renters. At the time of booking, the post wasn't explicit that there was no air conditioning. While I'm guessing it isn't needed 90% of the time and reasonable that a 100 year old farmhouse is without AC, we arrived during a heat wave to a closed up house, we were surprised and frustrated. There were plenty of fans in the house, so we got past it.
The rest of our 4 night stay was spent repairing and doing maintenance work on the house and pool. The pool was murky and full of bark and leaves (the pool cleaner simply not adequate), so we spent the entire extended weekend vacation cleaning the gunk out by hand. The garbage disposal wasn't working and clogged, so we unclogged the disposal (not something we wanted to do on holiday). The toilets were finicky and we were constantly repairing them.
The furnishings were modest, particularly in the living room (there wasn't really a good room for hanging out, although we spent most of our time outdoors). The kitchen was however fully stocked with pots, pans and utensils.
This home needs some TLC.