The house and the owner are very nice, but my issue is with the cleaning crew and several things that went wrong that caused major inconvenience since I was staying at this place to recover from a surgery. Be sure to check for accuracy that these things won’t happen to you or you could be left having to bother the owner constantly like I did. Note: the outlet in the master bathroom does NOT work— I couldn’t do my hair once while I stayed there and my partner couldn’t shave unless he brought it in the bedroom (so he just didn’t).
Check in was at 4pm (we notified we’d be there at 4) and we arrived to the cleaning ladies full blown still cleaning the house which lasted another 2 hours *after* check in, blasting music (fine, but for 2 hours after check in?) and soaking wet floors where we couldn’t walk anywhere the entire time while we waited for them to leave. The owner who is very nice, let us check out two hours later on check out day because of this inconvenience. But it seems the cleaning ladies likely do this often because they didn’t care at all that we were there and trying to get settled.
Separately— the cleaning ladies did not:
Leave toilet paper
Leave trash bags
Leave paper towels
Leave dish soap
Leave a sponge
Empty the washer or dryer
Notify us that the dishwasher was broken (we discovered it ourselves)
Notify us that the kitchen sink was clogged
Notify us that the bathroom outlet didn’t work
The owner had to amazon order a lot of these items and I ended up buying dishwashing detergent, soap and a sponge to wash the dishes myself because the dishwasher wasn’t working. A plumber came by on day 3 to fix it (he couldn’t come earlier due to the hurricane & one day that didn’t work for me).
The kitchen sink was also clogged so washing dishes was a no go until it was fixed.
The entire house had GLADE plug ins everywhere so it smelled like pure chemicals, so I unplugged about 7 of them. If you’re chemical sensitive, consider that. The AC changes automatically to 79 in the middle of the night, ask the owner to keep this setting off if that bothers you.
The house is VERY nice and so is the theater room, lots of towels and a nice deck outside with parking, but make sure you clarify that everything is working first.
Also there is NO SALT, pepper, olive oil, any basic stuff to cook with so you’ll need to bring your own. It just seemed like this was a very nice house w good furniture that was a bit bare and lacking the absolute basics and essentials.
Good communication from the owner but his cleaning crew didn’t tell him most those items were missing and just don’t seem honest.