The location is great. 900 feet from the St, Charles streetcar which can basically get you anywhere you need to go, and a 10 minute walk over to Magazine street with great restaurants, coffee shops and boutiques. Nice, safe area with beautiful surrounding architecture.
Apartment was very spacious for all 6 of us with 3 separate bedroom areas. WiFi was a problem, only working half the time and only in the front half of the apartment. Not a huge problem, but when traveling with 5 teenagers it was a bit of an issue. No cable TV, but a guest account to Netflix was provided which was nice, except when WiFi wasn’t working. Half of the lights didn’t work and we did experience some cockroaches in the home during our stay which was disappointing.
I do not believe the homeowners live onsite, but am not sure as we never heard anything from them throughout our stay. However, the two different people that we did see during our stay were not the people pictured in the profile of the homeowner. I was under the impression that the apartment was actually in use as there were clothes left in drawers and laundry in the dryer. I felt this was something that we should’ve been informed of before our stay.
My main negative with this apartment was the dogs living in the upstairs residence. The listing stated that there was a dog, not multiples. There were 2-3 dogs there throughout our stay that were aggressive and barked constantly. Our first night there, as we came back from the grocery store, the dogs were unattended in the courtyard and became very aggressive as we approached. One of my children attempted to open the gate and the dog lunged over the gate and bit his hand. We stood there, groceries in hand, waiting for the resident to come down and get the dogs. When she did, she simply came out on the porch and yelled for the dogs and said, “They’re actually very nice dogs.” For the remainder of the stay, we had to time our entering/exiting on whether or not the dogs were in the courtyard. Which was also constantly covered in dog feces.
This was disappointing for us and I would hate for somebody else to stay there without knowing these things.