Other folks on these reviews have mentioned that maintenance is lacking, and they aren’t wrong. Sure, it’s nice to have a heat pump mini split in each major room—but they’re kind of useless if they don’t work. Most of them didn’t, and the one in my room barely had the fan moving air and made god-awful loud noises that made it almost impossible to sleep thru. The owner was able to send someone over to at least get the green room’s semi-functional, but it was still super noisy the next night. They weren’t able to have HVAC out until after we were gone. If the mini splits had worked as intended and had been maintenanced? It would have been lovely. It would have been another thing if there were screens or a security rod for the windows that open, but leaving them even cracked made it easy for anyone on the front porch to gently nudge them the rest of the way open and come through without a barrier. So it was the option of being super hot and noisy or completely unsafe but cooled. Not great options.
We were also thrown by the exterior paint scheme of the house. Online photos for the address pulled up a gray house. We thought we had gotten a wrong address when we’d shown up and found it… well, clown colored. You certainly won’t miss it if you know that. Literally every other house in a ten block radius is painted in subdued color schemes. Then there’s this neon orange, pink, green and blue place with a “no trespassing” sign all front and center of the entry. The insider was nicer by far.
Also? The owner likes to be in communication more than I would have liked. I was there 2 nights. I was busy doing things with my party. Once you received past 4+ communications it starts to become a bit much. And then to be notified again by him to give him a superhost review even though the experience was negative… Well, here we are.