The offer of $100 refund just isn’t enough to cover the embarrassment of having to use public restrooms with my pregnant wife and 2 year old son for the 3 days we were renting this unit because the toilet doesn’t flush.
I even tried to explain that we just had to put our hands into the toilet tank and dig deep into the toilet water to flush it but I’m sure you understand what I was told about that idea 🤮.
Some of issues with your rental property are cosmetic and some simply dangerous. Normally I wouldn’t write a negative review about wear and tear but there was so much here, I felt it needed to be addressed.
Lights were out throughout the rental unit and while cooking my home famous chicken under the elegant flickering light provided by the TV it made it difficult to see if the chicken was cooked. On to plan B, I’ll let the smoke detector tell me when everything’s cooked (this always worked for my mom back in the day)… wait, there’s no battery in the smoke detector. I’ll guesstimate, undercooked chicken can’t be that bad for you… right. Once the food was cooked and plated up I take it over to the coffee table for my 2 year old to eat, but now there’s a new problem. The coffee table has a good amount of mold growing on it (the size of a cereal bowl), now my 2 year old is an only child but this is not the kind of friend he was expecting to make in this trip.
The skirting boards around the unit are disgustingly dirty, I can’t really make light of this issue and that’s mostly because the lights in the unit don’t work.
The bath is usually a place where you enter dirty and leave clean… not here. The bath has rings of mildew in the tub and mold growing around the seal, to add to this there is rust making its way down from the faucet and all across the shower curtain hooks. No fear, there is a shower… would you believe it, the shower does more of a spitting/spurting action than what is normally associated with a shower and is ineffective at best. By this point, I’m sure this was by design and was made like this to turn it into a fun game of catch the water on your head which by the way my 2 year old loved and now loves showers (silver lining and all that).
The unit owner seemed nice enough during our conversations. Offering to get a plumber out on Monday (we arrived on Saturday and left on Tuesday morning)… the plumber didn’t show and that’s why we were offered the $100 refund. When told about the coffee table and it’s mold ‘issue’ we were asked ‘what should I do?’ and advised to put it out on the balcony. Which in turn took up the only remaining space on the balcony, we made the most of this situation and set up the patio chairs in the living room facing out through the glass doors to ensure we made the most of our ‘sea view’.