6/10 Okay
Amy R.
23 Jun 2024
Disliked: Cleanliness
Misleading to call this newly renovated
Our group of friends planned a long weekend to catch up, explore Richmond and spend lots of time at the house cooking meals and hanging out on the backyard. It’s extremely misleading to call this house newly renovated, the outer siding looks new and maybe the interior is painted and has some new-ish furniture, but the house is very old and creaky with scuffs and major settling cracks in the walls, loose laminate floorboards in the downstairs. The house itself does not seem newly renovated or was renovated without care. House wasn’t all that clean either. There were lots of spider webs in the house too. Additionally, some smoke detectors did not have batteries (upstairs bedrooms).
Our major issue stemmed from the AC- there is a sign in the house not to knock it below 60-65 degrees- interesting. We were here on the hottest day of the year on Saturday, but even on Thursday and Friday the AC wasn’t getting below 80-81 degrees so it’s quite clear that the AC system has issues. On Saturday it was reaching 83-84 in the house. The owner was responsive about our inquiries about how to make it work better. He told us to take the it filter out on Friday night, which we did and it was very dirty- it looked like it hadn’t been changed in a long time. On Saturday, when the temp of the house didn’t go down, he sent someone with a portable unit for the living room which helped.
Also, it can be loud with the train nearby.
I would not recommend staying here, especially in the summer.
Amy R.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2024