The photography is well done, but when stepping into the home you immediately notice that it isn't as pristine or well maintained as the photos depict it to be. The home is NOT “newly remodeled”, doesn't appear to be “sanitized after every guest”, and doesn't feel like “it’s like a five-star luxury suite” as the listing description states.
Maybe when the home was first available for rent they could’ve said it was newly remodeled, but throughout the entire house there are many updates and replacements that need to take place: wall and baseboard scuffs, stained and faded furniture (indoors and outdoors), broken kitchen drawers, a shower door that doesn’t close properly, minimal outdoor lighting, a tv that doesn’t have working volume, wall hooks that fall right off the wall, and the most annoying thing that was missing was clothing storage. Zero dressers, about 8 hangers throughout the entire house, and 2 out of the 4 closets didn’t even have bars to hang clothing from. We lived out of our suitcases the week we stayed.
At best the house is surface clean. There was dust that should’ve been cleaned, dirtiness in closets and under beds, and random little hairs and dust in bathroom drawers. The floor was so dirty that by the end of the first day my daughter’s feet were caked in grime. A nod I will give to the owner is that he did send someone to clean the floors the very next day after I complained. I greatly appreciated this and his quick responses. However, even after the floors were cleaned it still seemed like they were engrained with grime.
While the home is located conveniently to the strip, grocery stores, and restaurants, the ‘beautiful park’ located across the street and the neighborhood is rundown and questionable. What bothered me the most was that there were remnants of the homeless at the park (blankets, clothing items, some litter, etc.), and we could see them sleeping on park benches early in the day and in the evenings. To be clear, I never felt unsafe at the house or in the neighborhood, but being in proximity to that type of atmosphere definitely made the entire area feel less family friendly, and we did rent this house with several children in tow.
The home is absolutely not what I expected, and I was disappointed by that, but 2 positive things I can say is the pool was in good condition and great to have for the hot days, and the owner was a very responsive and a great communicator.