If you're looking for a place that has plenty of holes in the walls and headboards, broken stair treads, warped and water damaged refrigerator doors, half-stuck garage doors, trash strewn around the house, burned out lightbulbs throughout the home, and poor housekeeping that ensures the floors are sticky, the carpets are stained and there are hairs all around the bathroom, then this is the place for you.
Further, when you bring these shortcomings to the attention of the property manager, it's possible that they will ask YOU to fix the things you can fix, as they did with me, as if I am not a paying guest but instead some sort of handyman.
It seems clear that they home is not kept up. The money they're making by renting this is going 100% into the pockets of the owners (minus fees, obviously), and they don't seem to be putting anything back into the home. That's fine, but the price of that decision is a declining home that gets bad reviews. This home is in decline, and when I brought these complaints to the property manager, he told me he was aware of the damages and they should have been fixed. A lot of things "SHOULD" have been done to this home, but they weren't, and so I'd encourage you to find another place that values their investment as a reflection of their regard for the guests who stay there. The property manager had a whole host of conditions regarding guest behavior, and they had a whole lot of nothing when it came to the performance of the owner or manager except for simply providing a place that, while certainly acceptable, is not worth what we paid for it by any stretch. I fail to see how this property is remotely following cleaning guidelines, which is particularly unfortunate during a pandemic.
A few key low points to consider before you travel to this property, so you can pack accordingly:
- Bare minimum number of towels, no washcloths
- Some Beds on the floor (no bed frames)
- Multiple holes in the wall, broken switch/outlet covers
- Multiple lightbulbs burned out
- Lots of trash in outside areas (including plastic cigar ends, cigarette butts, what looked like a roach holder, chips bags, dirty cups)
- Broken outdoor furniture; also lots of broken outdoor furniture shoved off off to the sides of the yard
- Old dog poop in the yard (which makes me wonder why we paid a pet cleaning fee)
- Fridge door very broken (warped); ice maker didn't work, although I will say the rest of the fridge was nice and cold
- Missing wood cover above fridge, so you're looking at the insides of fridge power/water unit
- Not nearly enough supplies in the kitchen and 2 of the [few/sparse] glasses were so cracked/chipped that they were dangerous.
- The treadmill was missing the safety cutoff key, so it's not operable, it's basically just taking up space
- No dish towels, no mitts for taking hot stuff out of the oven
- No cleaning supplies at all for even wiping down the kitchen counters while we cooked
This was a big bummer for us. There are plenty of options in the area, I'd encourage you to spend your money more wisely than we did.
Check in and check out were delightful, so points where points are due. Super easy, digital doorknob, zero problems coming or going.