Nice house but lots of little things that made for a really annoying experience. I would definitely not recommend this place. First of all, the pictures shown were taken a while ago - the house is a lot more run down now - landscaping needs some work, grass isn't very nice, paint is faded, interior of the house has had a lot of use. Secondly, the parking situation was really bad. The driveway only fits one car comfortably without parking on the grass. All the neighbors in the neighborhood seem to run construction companies or something - multiple trailers and large trucks and jeeps blocked the street and cars parked right up to the edge of the driveway, making it almost impossible for us to get into or out of the driveway. The TVs in the house are small and very poor quality/fuzzy (maybe he should consider using HDMI instead of composite inputs!) and the furniture is awkwardly far away so it's hard to see the TV from the couches. The remote controls don't really work well, and there's no DVD/BluRay player anywhere in the house. One of the main attractions of the house was the pool - which is REALLY run down. The back door to get to the pool is difficult to operate. The cement paint/surface/ of the pool is only about half there - the rest has been chipped away and the bottom of the pool looks really dirty all the time. (note the pool looks perfect in the pictures of this house) The pool filter isn't working right - only about half the jets worked and the bottom intake didn't work at all - which meant that the water was cloudy and pretty disgusting. The pool has a heater, which we didn't think we'd need, but a cold snap sent the temperatures into the low 70s. When I asked to have the heater turned on, the owner couldn't be bothered to get anyone out to do so - he was out of town and the electrical box is locked - plus he made it a point to tell me that it would cost an additional $40 a day to run the pool heater. There's also very little shade on the pool deck - so if you're going to be outside while the kids are playing, you're going to be in direct sun next to the house and probably really hot. To top it all off, the pool guys showed up mid-week and shocked the pool, so we couldn't use it for 24 hours - too bad the owner couldn't have had that done either before or after our trip. This house was FAR too expensive for the number of annoyances, and I felt like the description was deceptive.
