My girlfriend and I stayed at this home for one month. We spent a lot of time in and around the home.
The Pros: The house is very spacious. It has three floors, and on the fourth floor there is a very nice terrace where you can sunbathe and have your tea in the mornings and early to mid afternoons.
The house is also equipped with a great washer and dryer which was a definite plus and super convenient.
As I mentioned, there is a ground floor where there is a room and a nice bunkbed with comfortable mattresses, and on the other end of that floor a garage.
There is a second floor on which there is a spacious living room and a nice kitchen as well as a bedroom with a beautiful bathroom. The refrigerator in the kitchen is new and modern and spacious which was great.
There is a third floor where there is a spacious master bathroom with a spacious insuite closet and beautiful bathroom. There are also 2 terraces on the 2nd and third floors (two on each floor).
On the fourth floor, there is a spacious rooftop area with a nice L shaped sofa, where I very much enjoyed sunbathing and sipping tea.
The rooms and bedding and everything is new and clean, which was awesome.
There are several cameras on the premise which felt very safe without impacting our privacy. That was a great touch.
The two block radius surrounding the house felt very safe, and the house is a good 10 - minute walk from the local dollar store.
But besides that, you will either have to drive to the grocery store, or order food to be delivered online.
The house is a good 20 minute Uber ride from downtown Nashville.
But, If you want a quiet neighborhood, this is it.
The house was also very quiet during the days as well as at night, which was great.
The neighbors are also nice.
It is a beautiful home, and all the furnishings look that way in real life.
This house was new. We were the first to have a stayed there, from what it seems, so all was new.
There is a lake out front, which is nice, and a restaurant pretty much across the street within one minute or less of walking distance, which was nice to have. The restaurant sits on the lake and has good sweet potato fries.
I enjoyed walking around the neighborhood in the afternoons and evenings.
Cons:
Unfortunately, there was poor communication from the hosts the last 10 days or so.
The dishwasher didn’t work and what made it worse is that water started leaking from the dishwasher. We used towels to make sure that the leak did not get out of hand and go into the living room.
I reached out to the hosts about this issue on the night that it came up, and they didn’t get back to me with a solution until six days later.
They did mention (within a few hours of my bringing up the dishwasher and leaking issue) that they would get somebody to help, but it took them around six days to do so.
During those six days, my girlfriend and I were washing the dishes by hand in the 2nd floor bathroom, as every time we would turn on the kitchen sink, it would cause water to spit out of the dishwasher and flood the kitchen.
I sent the hosts photos of this, and they were lackadaisical to get anybody to help with this, and we had to wait six days for it to be looked into.
In thinking about it, as they manage many properties, I imagine that they had a lot on their hands and this may have been unintentional.
Nonetheless, it was frustrating as guests.
I reached out to the hosts several times, and they kept telling me that they would get somebody to help out and update me. But they never did until, six days after I first mentioned to them that the dishwasher was leaking, they had their team come by. But unfortunately they too could not fix the issue.
This was unfortunate as I had had amicable conversation with Alexa over the phone.
Unfortunately, they really dropped the ball with regards to this tardy communication and having us wait 6 days or so.
As the end of our stay approached, the hosts were more persistent in getting the dishwasher fixed which made it feel that they didn’t care as much for our comfort during those days we waited for assistance, but more so about the next guests having a fully functioning home.
I say this because they showed no hurry to get the issue fixed even after repeat mentions to them that the dishwasher was leaking, but as our stay approached the end date, they started being more assertive with having the issue resolved and asking for us to be more flexible with our schedule so as to allow for their team to be able to fix the issue when THEY were available.
This was a bit frustrating, but it is what it is.
On the night before the day we checked out, I personally spent two hours washing dishes. I’m not saying that the hosts asked me to do so, but because the dishwasher didn’t work and we hadn’t washed dishes and I wanted to leave everything clean, I spent two hours washing dishes in the bathroom sink.
Another miscommunication arose when one day, someone opened our garage door. I went to the garage as I heard it open to make sure that everything was OK. Luckily it was someone from the host’s team taking out the garbage, but they had no idea that we were already staying there. They were kind and apologetic and we had a good conversation. This was no biggie, but again this was a sign of non-clear communication between the hosts and their team.
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