The house is mostly as advertised. It is walkable to lots of things and conveniently located. As other reviewers have noted, the house is not Cap Hill but the Central District, a transitional neighborhood nearby.
We stayed at Sherry’s place for six days and found it a little shabby in person. It is definitely not a warm “farmhouse”. The place is spacious and the pictures are mostly accurate though the front yard is now comprised entirely of mulch, black plastic, some random concrete debris and the home’s garbage can. The backyard is also nothing but dirt and debris including some old construction buckets and metal scraps. There was a hole in the drywall in the living room.
As shown in the photos, the house is sparsely furnished. There are no desks or tables other than the dining room so it’s difficult to work remotely and there are no dressers, luggage racks or hooks for clothes. In some rooms, you can’t close the closet doors if you have clothes hanging in them. Several of the closets were stuffed with fans or giant boxes from air conditioners. There are no extra blankets or throws so we curled up on the sofa with a bath towel. On the plus side, there are two portable air conditioners!
I would have given the place 4 stars except for the cleaning issues. There were candies and trash under the sofa. The coffee maker had not been cleaned and the fridge was disgusting and full of someone else’s leftovers. There was literally mold growing in between the plastic shelves of the refrigerator and it had been there for a long time. The back deck was a shambles. To her credit, Sherry was super responsive and offered to send her cleaners over but we had places to be and didn’t want to babysit them. She offered us a credit of $50 which seemed really insignificant given that we paid $5000 for the 6 nights.