First the good. The house is beautiful and logistically everything was great up front. The owner even invited us up to the property the weekend before our rental to show us around the house and took us out on the boat we were renting to help familiarize us with the vessel and the lake. The house has plenty of space, is immaculately kept, and you really just have to show up with food, drinks, and swimsuits. Everything else is there.
It was once our rental started that things got weird. We spoke with the owner in advance and were well aware of the requests to keep noise down, especially after 10pm, which was clearly stated in the rental agreement and also placed on signs in several locations throughout the house. The homeowner has decibel meters set up around the property and gets mobile alerts when noise goes above a certain level. On more than one occasion, we got phone calls from the owner saying his meter was spiking. In all instances, any music that was playing was at an extremely reasonable volume and in one case at just after 9:30pm, there was literally no music outside at all and everyone was indoors.
The owner also showed up to the house several times during our rental and on one occasion did an unannounced walk-through of the house...with all of our guests there!
We could not control the hot tub directly and had to text the owner to have the hot tub turned on, which then takes about 30 mins to heat up. While hanging out waiting for the hot tub to heat up, there was a car next door with its lights on pointed directly at us for over an hour. After contacting the owner about it, it was stated that one of the neighbor's guests had accidentally left their lights on in the car. The general sentiment of our guests by this point was that we were being watched and it was an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
As objective as a participating party can be, I can confidently say that our group was not loud, obnoxious, or disrespectful in any way. However, we were micromanaged by the owner the entire weekend and frankly didn't feel welcome. So in summary, the property is beautiful and the owner is honestly a very nice person, but if you're planning to do anything outdoors other than lay silently by the pool with a book or quietly wade in the shallow end of the pool, this may not be the house for you.