In summary, the seven of us were very upset about this stay. It is a very tiny town that is far from everything. We were visiting family eight hours away. I understand that this place is used for a hunting lodge as well and expected rustic. It had live and dead bugs inside, the furniture is not in great shape. The coffee pot is broken, two of the stove burners are not working, there is a lot of food left that needs to be thrown away. When you look around,you feel like someone lives there and they left so you could rent it. The outside area is trashy and could be picked up and look nicer with very little effort. We get there and and didn't do much at first. We wanted to relax that evening and the tv would not work because the remote was nowhere to be found. The owner didn't say sorry he just said it had to be there. We looked everywhere, including the nasty couch and chairs that have hair and food and dead bugs all underneath. His family comes and looks and they don't see it either of course. So we are told they will get a new remote the next morning. Ok no big deal. They even helped us start a fire because the wood is all wet, which was nice. So we hang out at the fire for a while and go in to get the smoke smell off and there is NO hot water! I send a message. My husband is very handy and he tried to fix it but it wouldn't work. The owner said he would have someone look at it in the morning. At this point,we have no hot water and no tv. No games or cards to play either. There is not even a gas station in this town, so it's very small. Two of us decide to take a very cold shower which was awful. The next morning two guys that we don't know come and knock on the door and hand us a remote and look at the hot water tank. My husband tried to read the directions to the remote and is not able to establish a connection with the dish network,so still no TV and WE programmed the remote! The two guys leave and said they can't fix it. We hear nothing. So later I sent a message to the owner and asked what the verdict was, he said he called a plumber. Ok. We are visiting family and we get a call about when we will be back at the lodge so they can have dish call us about the remote. The family of the owner ended up going to the lodge to get the tv working. They leave us a note that the plumber can not fix it and it will be 5 days for the part!! The owner is willing to give a half refund due to the problem. We could not do dishes or take showers the whole time.