Fantastic, and beautiful gardens with plants named on tags. Also, kindly looked for my missing slippers, which I later found.
I am a long time host and Landlord. I am offended by deceptive advertising. The building was a "Victorian House", but what we rented was a one flat in a three flats conversion with main entry via the kitchen. That was not made clear, and when the headline said "Victorian House". Thus, one star.
The small, square, deep eccentric bathtub, which they are so proud of, required long, nimble, young legs for entry and exit. My friend's wife, who is 5'2", and 75 years old and not a lightweight, could not get in this deep square tub and was afraid of not being able to get out. It was a sponge bath for her during our four-day stay. I am the same age and at 5' 10" and with great care I could get in and out, but it took concentration. The giant overhead shower made bathing without getting my hair wet a challenge. The hand sprayer was missing, so that was not an option. There was mold in various places in the bathroom and old pipes with cracking paint, so I would not want to take an actual bath. Thus, one star.
Each bedroom had tiny closets with wire hangers from the dry cleaners and no dressers! There were tiny, little three stack storage boxes and no suitcase racks. We could not really unpack for our four-day stay, and just ended up with our clothes still in the suitcase or on the floor. Please buy some dressers and wastepaper basket and descent hangers. One or two nights' rent should cover it. The decor was Mexican bordello, right down to the Tijuana velvet painting and red velvet couch—kind of fun or weird if you are from California.
I stayed in the front bedroom, which had shades but still let in lots of light from the front porch light that seemed to be on 24 hours per day. Turning off the bedroom overhead light with difficult dimmer took messing around for a minute or two. Finding an open receptacle for chargers was a challenge.
The entry porch was grubby, with dirty chairs and table and an old rug cover with saw dust and debris, while the entryway had a giant commercial packing case almost blocking the entry door that put you in the adequate kitchen.
The distance to Harvard was accurate (30 minutes) and the neighborhood is quaint with a nearby store and pizza place. A deep clean, clean up and dressers, etc., and honest disclosures and my rating would have been higher, sorry for the one star.