My 1 month stay was overall good, with some caveats.
Pros:
- Overall good value
- Parking inside the gate and within feet of the front door
- For the size of the space, lots of amenities such as kitchen space, induction plug-in cooktop, good storage within cubbies, AC, laundry attached to unit
Cons
- Entire space felt smaller than expected
- Bathroom was very tight, although I'm 6'3
- Tenants occupy the main house. I fortunately didnt have many complaints but I did have to ask them to not do laundry during sleep hours since I could clearly hear the machine and all laundry room noises when trying to sleep. They were doing laundry at 2am. They understood.
- I had a persistent, but minor knat and cockroach problem. The owner did everything she could to fix this problem, but it was an issue for my entire stay.
- Something completely out of control of the owner were the neighbors and cars driving by. There were often cars racing through the streets with extremely loud exhausts and tires squealing. Fortunately it was usually only a problem during day light hours. Numerous times people would randomly set off very loud fireworks late into the night, often at 11pm. the fireworks were so loud they would set off car alarms.
- As safe as the gate was, it malfunctioned one morning and would not close after being opened. I also found it open several times when I would leave for work around 6am. The tenants in the main house may have been accidentally opening my gate, instead of their gate on their side, but I never learned why the gate would be found open like that. This was a bit of a security concern.
- Communication with the owner was average. Sometimes messages weren't acknowledged, or responses came many hours later.
Again, I think the value was good with both pros and cons.