We were excited to visit this home on our travels, as it looked so nice in the photos, and it was our sons 16th birthday. The neighborhood was ok, not great but not bad. The home looked nice enough on the outside, but as soon as we opened the front door, we were hit with the strong odor of marijuana. Overlooking the odor, the house had potential,
and at first glance it seemed to be nicely renovated and furnished. We opened the door to garage to bring in our bags, as the only driveway is located at the back of the home, with the garage. Immediately we were hit with the odor of decomposing garbage, as all of the cans in the garage were overflowing with trash. There were large roaches in the garage, which I suppose is typical for Texas, but the garbage likely didn't help the roach situation. Upon closer inspection of the interior, things were not in good shape. Some of the cabinet doors were falling off in the kitchen. I wouldn't even attempt to try to use them, for fear of damaging them further, which meant we couldn't get to the sparce amount of cookware that was available. The entire home was very barren feeling. There weren't really any amenities to speak of. In the living room, there were cigarette burns in the sofa, and on the tables, and ashes in the candles. Unfortunately, the tables in most of the rooms had cigarette burns on them. There were stains on the rugs and bath linens. The towels and sheets were of mediocre quality, as were the mattresses. Dirty towels and garbage were under every bed. The water was cold for our showers. And the backyard had dog feces all over, which had now been rained on making it difficult and messy to clean up properly after my own dogs, as I always do. If it hadn't been so late and rainy, we would have looked for other accomodations. The worst part of the experience, was the lack of any communication from the property owners. I contacted them multiple times, as I prefer to allow the owners to deal with any issues that arise, rather than involve air bnb. However after multiple messages, the next morning I still hadn't heard back from anyone, which left me no choice but to contact air bnb for some resolution. Even with the refund of the high cleaning fee, the cost was still over $200 for just under 14 hours. Way too much for this property.