Pros: It is a beautiful older home in a great location, very spacious, overall comfortable for a good sized family. The private pool and partial ocean view are really gorgeous, and decor makes this I think a unique special property. It's also very close to town, a nice escape up in the hills.
Cons: Sadly, I have to echo a lot of the other reviews about this property that I'd hoped were outdated. The property is as other reviews mention, just not being properly cared for & maintained. Many things appear old and dingy/dirty, as though the cleaning services are really only doing surface level and rare deep cleans (Ex: a sitting chair had a stain on it that appeared very much like bird poo not cleaned off, dead bugs in window sills and trim of floors, many lightbulbs out all over the property). We had a major ant infestation in the kitchen despite going out and buying ziplock bags for all our dry foods after arriving and discoverign them and then reading in the book it was a struggle. Kurtis had to bring us traps as even the next day they were swarming, the traps were filled overnight. You are also expected to do all your own laundry of linens and take all garbages out, leaving the home as you found it...a bit frustrating given the cleaning fees.
Lots of things are broken, including the hot tub and jetted tub in the master suite which was a huge disappointment as they are pictured and the posting does not clearly state they are unavailable.
Communication with Kurtis started out great, but then trailed off as we had more questions about things not working. Really too bad as it's such a unique gorgeous property that could I think become a more expensive highly rated listing were it just being cared for better.
The most concerning thing that happened on our visit however - the day we went out and Kurtis came by with ant traps, we had left the home entirely closed and locked up - per the instructions in the binder, advising theft can be an issue in the area. When we came home multiple doors were wide open and unlocked, to include one of the screens so we then also had bugs in the home that night. Kurtis was not able to explain this and called any/all services that might have been by that day with eventually no explanation. Thankfully nothing was stolen, but we all felt unsafe and unnerved that night to be sure.