These were the notes I took down throughout our stay.
Pros:
- Great interior design (actually took some pictures so I could find certain hardware and things like that for our home)
- Comfortable furnishings
- Lots of toys for kids and books for all.
- Very family oriented (booster seats, kid-friendly dishes, etc were great)
- Welcome gifts for the kids and the adults were sweet
- Had almost anything we would need here (we would’ve preferred an electric coffee maker but that’s just being picky... the pour-over maker and French press worked)
- Vegetable garden we could pick from was nice
- Lots of fantastic tech built into home
- Doors and drawers close super quietly
- Houseplants were great (that’s a new hobby of mine actually and it def adds to the homeyness)
- The owner was very nice and communicative
Cons:
- Unfinished projects around the house (missing floor transitions, missing hardware, unfinished exposed beam, paint, electrical under cabinets, etc)
- Loud neighbors..... The neighbors in unit A played loud music and spoke very loudly so we could hear it through the master bedroom wall. They were friendly and happily turned down music late in the evening, after the owner contacted them, but they continued the following afternoon and late into the evening (I had to knock on the wall so they would stop singing loudly at about 10:30pm). Other neighbors in the back were loud as well though w/ music, yelling, and even setting off fireworks (we stayed here the weekend after July 4th).
- The neighborhood did not make us comfortable and the congested street was a challenge as well as issues with not being able to get into or out of the driveway because someone else was in the way.
- A LOT of owners’ personal belongings in the home. Closets and drawers were FULL of clothes and other personal items. Lots of personal photos made it feel a bit weird staying there. Maybe one or 2 would’ve been fine but it just made us feel a little awkward.
- Cleanliness.... cluttered shelves, dingy towels, etc.
- Ant invasion.... day one, we found a piece of food in the corner, by the little kid table off the kitchen/living area that was COVERED in hundreds of tiny ants w/ a huge trail of them coming out of the wall. We cleaned it all up and killed as many as we could find but more showed up the next day and we were still seeing a few on the last morning.
- Curtains/blinds/shades in the playroom would’ve made it possible for us to put our son’s pack-n-play in there in stead of having him in the room w/ our girls. Just that simple thing would have opened up a great alternative option
- Could not access the little nook inside a closet that was advertised on the listing for the kids, nor is it really big enough to play in like owner had said in the description.
- Wasn’t sure what items we were allowed to use and what we were not. There was a lot of food in the fridge we weren’t sure about and some toys that seemed like maybe you might not want strangers to play with them but, again, we were unsure because they were in with the rest of the toys.