TLDR: This is a great property for college kids or people looking for 1 to 2 night near the lake.
We stayed for a month while a home remodel project was taking place within the same area but would not return.
Pros:
- The owner of the property is extremely nice and will communicate and try his best to make things better ASAP.
- The house is in a nice, quiet location with the ability to walk down to the water or just around the nice neighborhoods
- Allows pets
- The WiFi even for 2 adults WFH worked great (until it completely stopped working 3 days before we left.)
- The house did not have any issues during the Feb '21 snowpocalapse - a very good thing
Cons:
-- The oven knob is broken so you can't use the oven to any specific temp and then it's hard to know if it's really off (as someone who has lived through a house fire, once we got it off and cooled, we never used it again)
-- The beds are uncomfortable, really uncomfortable. One is SO SOFT you fall to the center and sink, one is soft on top but can feel the springs under the mattress topper
-- The TV lost connectivity, so wouldn't work more than a few minutes sometimes. We'd try to reconnect to WiFi but it was frustrating so we gave up and used our laptop
-- The couches are not comfortable, again with the soft, sinking thing
-- The kitchen lights have a wiring issue and would flicker, turn on-and-off randomly... we ended up using the hood light more than recessed lights.
-- There is 1 key between 2 people and that can be challenging when there are multiple schedules
-- Tools were lacking (esp for a longer stay) so we went to our house and brought back comforters, pans, pots, grill tools, etc.
-- Unfortunately the heater completely broke our first night, it took 2 days to do a complete replace. The owner did jump on this right away, but we were also trying to avoid construction so this was upsetting and distracting us from work while dealing with it.
-- Unfortunately the septic tank had issues in our first week so the house smelled like... septic tank. We went to our house and got smelly candles and tried to mask it but again, why are we dealing with these major issues as Airbnb renters? Just unfortunate timing.
Overall, the house did its job. Our infant daughter didn't seem to notice anything. Our dog could run around. We had a place to go during a remodel. The owner did act quickly and was apologetic. But we were stressed out over the property and looking back, we shouldn't have rented and just dealt with our own house.