I can honestly say this is not a safe location. Not only do you park behind the house in a designated parking space but you have to walk around to the front the enter. The side of the house has no lighting at all and is between a street and a back alley. In addition, while in said designated parking spot my car window was shattered and items were stolen from my vehicle. When I contacted the rental manager I was told there was NO activity on the Ring camera facing the parking lot. Come to find out the doorbell camera only has coverage on one side of the vehicle, not the entire building area despite owner listing ‘surveillance cameras’ as an amenity. After filing a police report, I expressed my reluctance to park my already vandalized car for our final nights stay. In fact, I said I wasn’t comfortable finishing out the night at all. I asked if they would be willing to refund that final night and pay for a hotel. I was told that they have NEVER had anything like this happen before. I casually asked a few of the area neighbors if this was something unusual. All three people, from different households, who I spoke with independently of one another, said it was very common and happens at least 1-2 times a week. One guy even said he parks his car with the windows down so the thieves don’t break them. I was told, two days later, that the owner would refund my cleaning deposit and final nights stay. It’s been two weeks and I still have yet to see that refund. In fact I can’t even get him to return my calls. As a single mother with a teenage daughter we often stay at vacation rentals BECAUSE they are safer in my cases then hotels. Off the 100 or so I stayed in this is the only one where I felt it was sketchy and frankly unsafe. After $400 window repair we could have rented a camper on the Expo campgrounds for still less then the cost of Kurt’s place plus the window repair and the rental car for 10 days as my car was not considered legal for driving.
I have NEVER written a poor review before but I would not feel right if someone else stayed here and had a similar experience…. Or worse. At least it was just ‘stuff’ that was taken from us but still.