Great location, very private. Beautiful drive out there. My kids loved Charlie the cat.
Overall, we had a pretty good experience, but here is what I would want others to know:
House was as described. It was clean where you hoped it would be: bedrooms and bathrooms. The rest of the house was needing a deep clean. There were webs on the lights, very dusty on picture frames/windowsills, etc, dead bugs in the box where the coffee scoop was. Under the furniture in multiple rooms (which I only saw because I was looking for things my toddler may have hidden) was very dirty. Basement had large spider web “tunnels” around the baseboards and webs on windows/lights.
The cupboards were stocked but it felt like with “leftover” items. Nothing felt fresh and new.
Listing said there was WiFi and when I checked in via the Airbnb app it gave a WiFi link for me to connect to, however there is no WiFi.
TVs have basic DirectTv as stated. Could not get downstairs DVD player to work at all.
Washing machine is very old and left iron stains on some clothes.
The back sliding door lock is broken and they have a wooden cane as the barrier to opening the door, however it was not long enough to prevent the door from opening.
Caroline needs to come to the home every other day to feed Charlie. I didn’t see that in the manual so I was surprised by this. She said I could feed him if I didn’t mind and if I wanted to save her the trip down there. I didn’t mind feeding him but wish I would have understood that the owner would be present in the event that I couldn’t feed the cat.
There are sticky notes around the house, many pertaining to issues/questions past folks have had. I would recommend putting that info in the welcome book. That book should have all the info about everything in the house: how to use the appliances, which items should not be moved, etc. The welcome book was lacking a lot of that info. There are a lot of resources out there to help you build a good welcome book.
We loved playing outside and with the pingpong table. We loved the croquet set and played it all over the yard.
We saw deer and turkeys which was so exciting for my kids! The wide open space was just what we were looking for.
I think the execution could be improved upon which is why I left the comments above.
Thanks!