Fantail Cottage felt cluttered and didn’t feel like it was well cared for. The drapes were way to long and reminded me of renting funky houses for weekend ski trips back in the 70s. The intro didn’t start well in part because we had just left a spectacular home in Makarora’s lush valley for less money, and arrived to find construction crews working and in order to see the “signature view” on the listing required looking over a chain link fence. The construction had been going for a week to repair a broken water main that caused two vehicles to fall into sinkholes created by the underground current of water. Those things happen, but it would have been great to know about it in advance.