The house is located on the inclined hill and if there is ice and snow it’s a hazard for you and your car. The garage is only for one car and if it’s something bigger than an Audi Q7, forget it. There is no back yard or fence, you never know who or what could be on the patio on the other side of the bedroom window. There are cameras in the front and the back of the house, if you are a smoker or trying to sneak in a pet, forget it, you’ll have your deposit forfeit. The carpet is old and looks dirty, it looks like a hazard to walk on barefoot, probably because renters don’t bother to take their shoes off.
All patio doors have fragile plastic vertical blinds and 2 of them fell off as soon as we tried to open them, had to reattach them from the other end, sure as many others did. The foosball table had a figurine broken, had to fix it with 2 zip ties. The fireplace was full of ashes and half burned firewood. There was a dirty napkin (I hope it was chocolate) behind the dresser in the loft, an unusable table lamp with a broken light switch and my kids saw a live bug on a bunk bed frame. The electric kettle leaks water and the drier takes 2-3 hours to dry your cloth, and I had to properly reattach the exhaust tube to the exhaust pipe in the back since it was facing the kitchen.
The property listing clearly says that there is community pool and a hot tub available when in fact it’s closed, the owner replied that “unsurprisingly it’s closed due to pandemic”, and yet a year later the listing still clearly says that they are available, I guess it’s a good marketing factor.
I did sneaked in a 6 pound Chihuahua. We searched for pet friendly houses, but after some time of searching, the filter gave us all options, and because of the software/user error, we ended up booking this listing and didn’t feel like canceling it, we thought how much a 6 pound lap dog wearing a sweater can do, yet we lost a giod portion of our security deposit for a specific allergen cleaning that possibly, was never even done.
We left the driveway at 11:06 with no one in sight, but sometime after 11:30 the owner sent me this: "My cleaner is waiting to get into the property, check out was 11am, please vacate the house.", to which he did apologize later.
If the owner thinks none of this is true, I dare him to prove me otherwise, but I will be sure not to rent this house again.
I give it one star for the prime location, just 20 min walk and 4 min drive from the downtown…
