I have been renting condos or hotels in Mission beach for about 36 years annually. That being said I look for two things, parking (which if you don’t have at the location is difficult at best to find on the streets as well as running the risk of damage to your car on the street) and air conditioning.
I will give this a fair review as I was not happy with the rental but had some good points.
Con:
I went thru the trouble before renting to be sure that a car the size of a Honda accord could fit in the garage. Hanks response: “A Honda Accord should fit in the garage.” If he had said probably would not, or would not attempt it, I would not have rented this location. If I were to try to put an Accord in, I most likely would have damaged the car or the building. If you could get it in it would take a lot of fiancé and time, and you would not have wanted to do it more than once. I do not believe or would risk my auto with this. Damage to the garage as noted will be discussed below. AGAIN WOULD NOT HAVE RENTED if could not use the garage and I could not.
Speaking of the garage. The electric eye for making sure the garage door is clear, was sheared off as if a car had hit it coming in. This made the garage not close once opened. You could fool the door (found this out after ½ of trying to fix the eye so it would recognize the beam) by holding the close button for the duration of the door closing (not normal operation). When the door closed, it could be opened again by just pushing the button again (without a code); you would have had to enter a bogus code to secure the door. This is not the way a door works and offered no security if my car was in there, but also Hank tells you that if anything in the garage (bikes etc) are missing or stolen you are responsible for it, I notified Hank the first night of this issues and he did nothing to correct it and did not address it with me. Thus, did not use the bikes, boards etc in the garage, (second amity that could not be used without risk)
Air conditioning. The first day, (the room with the small air-condition) it was 83 degrees in the family room/kitchen (wall thermostat matched my watch thermometer) and the bed room was 85. I did not go on vacation to sleep in 80+ air temperature. The temperature was in the 80’s for the next two days. Hank gave suggestions of closing all the drapes to help (it did not help). I did not rent a beach house to live in a room with no view and insufficient air conditioning.
Hank was notified of all issues the first day and basically told me too bad, when I requested a refund so I could find a room with parking and air-conditioning.
Pro:
Clean and comfortable beds. Did not have paper towels or napkins and missing a can opener. Hank may have got these to us, but when fixing dinner, I did not have time to wait for a can opener to be delivered.
Hank seems nice enough and sends lots of emails, but I felt as if I had been lied to about the parking and quality of the air conditioning. Hank sent a picture of his tiny little Ford Transit van in the space next to mine, but this space is on the corner with a better angle of attack to the street, it also has three additional feet of space in front of it to maneuver. My assigned space had a fence 3 feet closer.
Would never rent this again