As prior reviews have noted, the entire house is under construction, but we didn't care since we were just here for a weekend and just needed a place to stay.

However...there was one incident that occurred on our second night that made the otherwise 4-star stay pretty annoying. Carl gives you a key to let yourself in if the door is locked. In our case, we were out and returned at midnight only to find out that our key did not work on the outside gate. I called Carl and he was in Long Beach. After fiddling with the key for about 30 minutes, I gave up and crawled in the house through our bedroom window.

Mistakes happen...but my issue is with how Carl handled the situation. When I called him, Carl insisted that the door was not locked and that I wasn't pushing hard enough. Imagine me throwing my body into the gate at midnight. After arguing with him for about 10 minutes, he finally proposed that I wake one of the other guests up to use their key to let me in.

All in all, we left Carl's without any sort of apology or check up after this rendezvous. I told him we got in. His only response, "ok." That's what made this visit, unfortunately, really negative.