First of all let me say that the location is great! We wanted close to beach and this is it (two minutes). We were also happy that we could walk to shops and a little market (10 minutes).
The amenities in the house were great too. From the beach chairs, umbrella, and beach wagon, to the kitchen ware, etc, they were all nice. The smart TV was great. The sheets were clean and crisp. The Adirondack chairs on the porch were perfect.
Despite the newer couch, TV’s, and beds, the house is old and shows it’s age in other places like the the furniture (besides the couch), the kitchen, and the very awkward stairs that are not standard size. Also dangerous for us, with two small kids, was that the railing on the stairs had slats that were too far apart and the kids could have easily gone in between and fallen down the stairs. We brought a gate for the top of the stairs but had this problem of them getting through the wide slats. Luckily we found in a neighbor’s trash a broken child’s gate that we zip locked to the “hole” so they wouldn’t fall through. The couch was up against the rest of the railing so there was no problem there.
One thing we didn’t pick up from the pictures was that the upstairs bathroom is a jack and Jill. The two bedrooms share it. It is small with only one towel rack and the three adults upstairs had to figure out where to put their towels after a shower.
We had to call maintenance once when we blew a fuse using the toaster oven and microwave at the same time. The circuit breaker box was in the locked garage (we couldn’t find it). And the same morning the the smoke detector downstairs started beeping. I called maintenance three times and finally had to call someone from Resort Realty to get someone out there. No one came until the next morning. An emergency? No, but inconvenient and we did replace the battery in the smoke detector ourselves as I didn’t want to go to bed without it working properly (they did offer to reimburse).
I personally didn’t care for the carpet throughout the house. There is no vacuum. It looked to be in good shape but didn’t seem to be a smart choice for a beach house, and with kids laying on it and dropping food occasionally I was concerned about the cleanliness. I’m not a crazy neat freak, but in a house that sees new families every week, I’m sure it gets vacuumed but not cleaned.
Again, this is a cute place and we wanted a great location and we got it here.