Good morning,
The house & property is beautiful, but is in desperate need of some maintenance.
-The grass is severely overgrown & accumulation of leaves are causing a nasty mosquito infestation
-Upon arrival, the trash bin was empty at the curb, however, someone left 5 bags of trash inside the garage with the door closed. It smelled something awful (and lingered throughout the house) so we opened the garage door, placed the bags inside the bin, and brought bin to the road for pickup. We had to purchase some air fresheners just to get the odor out
-The air conditioning unit would not kick on. The thermostat showed an error stating “Check AC unit”. My brother in law found the electrical fuse, removed it, cleaned around it & reinserted it and that did the trick. Next morning it happened again, so he repeated the steps and it worked. Apparently it may need servicing soon.
-The kitchen sink faucet was very loose. And we had to figure out that you must flip a light switch to run dishwasher.
-The pool guy stopped by to change out the filters, which caught us off guard
-While he was here, someone from the city pulled up (with light sirens on). The lady introduced herself as being with the Code Compliance Department. She started taking pictures of the house and yard. She questioned us pretty heavily about renting. She told us that we were not supposed to renting this home because it was against code. We apologized & told her we were evacuating from the storm and would leave if we had to. She told us we didn’t have to leave, and that she would be contacting the homeowner to address it.
It was a very uncomfortable situation to be in & felt like it was a gross invasion of privacy
-There were many personal items through out the house that I felt caused us to be extra attentive to so that we didn’t mess them up.
-The pool is in desperate need of vacuuming and the only net I found to fish out leaves had a huge hole in it.
-The patio has numerous loose boards that need to use caution with small kids
-Finally, on our last day, we smelled a terrible odor downstairs. It intensified as we approached the laundry room. After opening the door from laundry room to garage, it smelled as if something died inside (maybe a rodent). It was so awful we could not stomach it anymore so we quickly loaded up our remaining items and left.
I notified the owner about all areas.
The place is overall very nice IF some TLC can be done.