Pros
Excellent location on hole number 4 of The Woodlands golf course. You can watch the golfers on the green and then look the other way to see all the way to the tee box a few hundred yards away. The house is luxurious with very nice kitchen cabinets, high ceilings in some rooms, gorgeous large master shower-room, and in general updated and well maintained. Large three-car garage with nice bikes and Ping-Pong table. Plenty of kitchenware. Beautiful setup for the deck overlooking the golf course, nice landscaping, generous space between the house and the neighboring houses.
Cons
Think twice if you plan to rent the house anytime during June through September. You’re rolling the dice on hot weather. We arrived June 29th at the 4 pm check-in time. The temperature outside was 105 degrees, which was a record high for Sunriver. The upper floor—kitchen and living room—inside the house was at 90 degrees. The bottom floor was at 81 degrees. The house has no air conditioning. So, the temperature in the house stayed hot throughout the next two days. Inside, it only drop to around 73 degrees by early the second morning.
Being a large house, there are many windows to open and close to get the best cooling at night--31 windows total, with many in the top floor you’ll need to get on your hands and knees and crank them to open. Doesn’t sound like a big deal until you have done this chore 10 times over a five-night stay.
A few other niggling details that you might expect from a rent-by-owner: good luck getting the living-room TV to operate. It’s a complex system involving many stereo and internet devices and many remote controls; the instructions in the binder are for the old system. When I brought this to the owner’s attention the last day of our stay he didn’t address this point.
Nice Hunter Douglas blinds in many rooms. However, several of them wouldn’t stay up, so you could never look out of those windows. Also, the blinds let in a lot of light, so the master bedroom is very bright when the sun comes up before 6 am in the summer. There is no way to block out the light.
The service “Girl Friday” to call for any issues was slow in responding. I needed to contact them several times and even then, it took till the next day to get needed plastic kitchen garbage bags.
The garage and exterior stairs and porch hadn’t been swept in a while.
Nice high-end pool table, but the room space a bit tight.
Not enough kitchen towels. Master bedroom light switch not working.