This home is a lovely modern house that looks better in person than it does in the photos. It’s spacious and comfortable and well built and decorated, with floor to ceiling wondows on both levels that look out to the lake. It’s both understated and stunning.
That said, there is not high-speed Internet in this home. There is Wi-Fi, but the highest speed we could get was .4 MB according to Google diagnostics. That is not high speed enough to run applications like zoom or video applications like Netflix or any other streaming services. I rented the house for two weekends and a week with the intention of working from here, which I could cobble together by doing Zoom on my phone which relies only on the telephone system, that worked. And then email and web searches from my laptop using the Wi-Fi which was slow and tedious vs. what we’ve all come to expect. I mention this because one adult had to leave and go back to DC to work because he simply could not accomplish his tasks at this low speed Internet service. Other things like downloading from the Cloud don’t work or trying to access a Powerpoint on a remote drive. I understand now this is common throughout Lake Anna and fiber cables are just being laid starting later this year. This is wonderful for a lake vacation, but be careful if your intention is to work from here and use technology that relies on high-speed Internet.
The home is gorgeous and clearly loved by an extended family. But there are a number of maintenance issues that should be addressed like power washing, landscaping and branch trimming, and exterminators to get after the bees and wasps which love with the boat house and the exterior trim of the home and are doing a lot of damage. None of that takes away from the charm of the lake, but should get addressed over the course of the summer.
We loved the kayaks, the dishwasher requires patience and is missing some wheels for the racks.
also, you shouldn’t say that it’s OK to cozy up to the fireplace when the fireplaces are not allowed to be used.
would absolutely recommend this home to others, and come here again. But the constraints should be honestly advertised and they are not.
Be aware that instructions for getting in were not clear, there was a hidden key box which was not detailed in any of the emails and the Wi-Fi password was also incorrect and required calling Vacasa to call the owners to get the right information.
