VRBO runs ads that you always have the property to yourself. I'm sorry, but when your host can walk to the area you are in and not have to open any doors, this is not private. When you enter the front door, they use too, this is not private. When you can see them turning on lights upstairs, not private. I will say the host was no problem at all, this house just isn't able to have a PRIVATE area. There is no door to the basement, and that is where you will live. If you are ok with this, it is a great place and we had everything we needed. Didn't use anything upstairs and wouldn't have cuz, not private.