Homey Silicon Valley pad should really say - Townhome with double windows due to airplane takeoff noise beginning at 6:00 am and not stopping until late.”
Overall Cleanliness:
5/10 It is not easy to trust when you wipe up a water spill in the kitchen on day on and the paper towel comes up dirty. All of the windows, fireplace glass and even low cabinets upstairs hall had children’s greasy handprints. Carpets were not vacuumed thoroughly.
We knew upon checkin that the previous guests had only left that morning. Apparently this “Super Host” is not taking enough time to get everything as clean as it could be during this time?
The garage is not useable. The host does not let you know this up front. There is only driveway parking which Is fine, unless you have a third car. There is a fire hydrant in the front yard and the entire curb is painted red. Parking is rough to find on this street!
The real fun started with the moldy toilet brush in the master water closet and it was chunks of black mold in dirty brown water! We thought there was a leak in the bathroom and the carpet (yes carpet) in the bathroom may be moldy. The initial response from the host was “Oh, sorry!” Not another peep! (Only at the end of our stay when I had finally had it with the ants and mold, I asked for a refund and was compensated the cleaning fee). Read further for ants.
When the ants cane, the property manager came over. A very pleasant person who sprayed outside. Spent time inside spraying and left a can of ant spray with us. We were here for two weeks while waiting to move in to our new house. We got to know the ants well - their habits, where they liked to march at night and in the day. No matter how spotless the kitchen they were still there waiting for breakfast in the morning. They were in my teenagers retainer cases and in my bathroom coming out of the sink
It may be time to hire a professional monthly service?
Master “Main” Bedroom:
No TV - the second tv is in a family type room upstairs.
Carpet in Bathroom.
Shower head should be replaced. It barely works.
Bedsheets in the master bedroom had a hole in them and there was no mattress cover - so I’m not sure how that gets clean? The mattress is very worn out too.
Kitchen:
Don’t drink from the “filtered water” at the sink. The host said it was replaced less than a year ago. You can see the filter. It is so full of dark brown that I am guessing it has been much longer than that. For our family of for, we bought a Brita pitcher. They also sent the property manager over to put in a new refrigerator water filter. It helped a lot.
Front Room:
Something smelly in the decorative rug needs to be professionally cleaned. (Maybe someone was ill?)
Back yard: pleasant when planes are not flying, ants not crawling or sprinklers not watering you when sitting at the table.
BBQ is for one burger at a time on the tiniest Charcoal grill ever.