We were not entirely pleased with our stay.
The good:
- Location: about 10-20 minutes from everything we wanted to do!)
- Neighborhood: though there is a bad (per all of our Uber/Lyft drivers) neighborhood close by, the actual neighborhood in which John's house is located was very nice. It was safe enough to take walks in and beautiful.
- The beds: comfy with clean linens
- The kitchen: nice updates and details
- Check in and responsiveness were both easy and appropriate
The bad:
- Bugs and mouse droppings: we encountered a sizable cockroach as well as a large amount of pill bugs/roly polies and mouse droppings in the sun room. John was defensive about this and did not address it during our stay (even though he was living on the premises during our stay), rather giving excuses and indicating it must not be a problem.
- The floors were dusty enough that we could not walk around barefoot without our feet getting dirty.
- Inaccurate photos: the house is not as bright and airy as the photos make it appear. The furniture has changed in some of the areas - namely the living room, where there was less seating than depicted. This was unfortunate for our group as we did not have enough seating for all six of us to hang out in the living room together and we had to move seating from other rooms to accommodate.
Overall, we all decided we would likely not stay here again if we visited Austin, almost entirely due to the disappointing cleanliness we encountered.