I’ll start by saying this property is in a great location, and it was clean. However, I don’t think it’s appropriate to request that renters put their dirty used toilet paper in a waste paper basket rather than flush it down the toilet like normal. This was not something that was communicated to us prior to showing up, instead on arrival we discovered signs posted behind each toilet that said “please do not place toilet paper in toilet”. If you ask me, properly working plumbing is a basic hygiene expectation, and at the price we paid I definitely didn’t expect to find plumbing problems.
On top of this, aspects of the property were misrepresented. On the listing we were promised use of a private outdoor space/deck. When we arrived, we found the deck “closed for construction/unstable”. The owner had made no effort to contact us or warn us about this issue beforehand, let alone offer any rebate on the price we agreed to pay when we thought we’d be able to use it during our vacation — a factor that definitely played into our decision to stay here to begin with. We did have the use of the shared patio, but a shared space is not what we were looking for and not what we felt we paid for.
Lastly, in the back of the upstairs loft there is a wall unit A/C that drips condensation, at times almost enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket in less than a day. The owner had a bucket under where it was dripping, but neglected to warn us about it and because of its location all the way at the back of the loft my husband and I almost missed it entirely. The only reason we found it was because we followed a dripping noise we heard from downstairs. We ended up having to empty this 5 gallon bucket 1-2 times daily, and if we hadn’t found it there would have been potentially damage to the unit from all the water. I didn’t mind necessarily helping empty the bucket, just that the owner did not tell us about it and it was only by chance that we discovered it. A heads up would have been nice.