The house is cute but has the potential to be much better by making small changes such as:
Adding more utensils (literally 3 forks in the entire place!), better pots/pans, and a corkscrew. If owner spent less than $100 on these things, it would make a big improvement!
The couch in the front room had cigarette burns and the small area rug in the middle room was filthy with stains. Sadly, the burns are likely just from a bad prior renter and i wouldn't expect owner to replace the couch but the carpet should be thrown out and a new one bought for around $25 (worth it!)
Lastly, the neighborhood is NOT GREAT and I definitely wouldn't walk around it at night, so my final suggestion is including a key or keypad for the FRONT door because it was a bit uncomfortable using only the back door especially at night.
Overall, I would still stay there again as the price was good and the communication was good. I just hope the owner listens to some of these easy suggestions to take the place from "good" to "better"!