A lovely, clean, spacious house sandwiched between a carpark fence and main street shop. Very comfortable beds and the kitchen was brilliant. There were two heating options. A log fire or heat pump. We chose the latter as the house was very cold even during the day when the sun shone, as not much sun actually made its way into the house. We were sitting on the deck in a sliver of sunlight, chatting to a local friend who had popped in to say Hi and all of a sudden a man appeared on the deck with his dog questioning us as to why we had the heat pump on. Apparently, he was one of the house managers! He was rude, made snide remarks like how about we turned it off or shut the door (it had just been opened and inadvertently not shut). We were shocked to have a man and big dog appear like this and all agreed it was totally inappropriate. How did they even know? Were they spying on us or monitoring heat pump use? Anyway, it left a really unpleasant feeling for us and we left early the next day.Was a real shame as we'd had such a lovely time in Takaka.