Super spacious, stunning location, and provided the exact sleeping arrangements we needed for our family gathering.
However, a LOT of things in this house have not been maintained. In the kitchen alone, more than half of the appliances either didn't work properly or didn't work AT ALL. My husband and I planned to spend a lot of the weekend cooking for our family, and we were pretty upset by the changes we had to make to menus we had planned for weeks. It's honestly a lie to describe this as a "gourmet kitchen, with gleaming Viking appliances."
On top of that, the kitchen needs a much larger, more complete, and better quality set of dishware and cookware. The strange mish-mash of plates and bowls of all shapes, sizes, colors, and materials was not suitable for our needs.
What's more, the flies and fruit flies were a BIG problem. Especially along a river, we know bugs can be somewhat unavoidable. However, one of the first things we saw when we walked into the kitchen was a fly ribbon, completely covered in flies, hanging right among the pots and pans. We also had to change out fly traps that clearly had not been changed during cleaning.
This house really does have the potential to be spectacular. It's too bad that right now it's not.
PS: Unless it's there and we somehow missed it, PLEASE get a recycling bin for outside.
PPS: Figure out with the neighbor what the deal is for the beach. You boast about it on your listing, but they clearly think they own it.