Overall, great value for stay!
CONS:
- You will be potentially sharing the house with 5 other rooms. Sometimes more than one guest per room. My boyfriend and I stayed there for a week. The first half of the week there were 3 other tenants who have been staying there for longer than a month. One had a friend staying with her for a few days. The 5th day a single man also came in the 4th room. The last two days a family of 3 came in the last room. So we got up to 10 people in the house.
- There are only two bathrooms. Mike came about every other day to clean but I feel like it kept getting dirtied quick, especially as more people came. I brought my own wipes to wipe down the toilet seat and sink every time I’d use it.
- The house has a bit of a weird smell. Not sure if it was one of the tenants or not but it was like a musty smell.
- Our stay was in July and it got a little warm in our room. Mike graciously offered us an extra fan and turned the air down for us at night so that helped a lot!
- The fridge got super full so don’t bring too much at once lol.
- Our room had a good amount of caked on dust on like the walls and door frame.
PROS:
- Mike the owner was great! Anytime I had an issue he responded right away. He came to clean and take out the trash as much as he could, usually every other day or every day.
- Its super close to the bus stop. Like a 1 minute walk. If you don’t have money for the bus fare they let you on anyway lol. We took the bus to the train and made it to the White House in less than an hour. I recommend taking the public transport because you will be walking a lot and it’s cheaper than paying to park.
- The parking was easy. The street next to the place was full of free parking. Just pay attention to the signs as you can’t park for a couple hours on certain days due to street sweeping.
For a simple place to lay our head for the week it was cool, I just wish there weren’t so many tenants and/or the place got cleaned more regularly/thoroughly.