A dance friend rented this place for a weekend, and it became the summer party event. The party was awesome. But the house really sucked. If I had rented this place I would have literally gone room by room taking photos of how ill-kept this estate is for the price they charge.
First of all, the person who rented the house prior to our stay spent the entire time partying with drugs and alcohol. It was literally documented on his webpage. The house reeked of marijuana. Reeked. The caretakers m tried to neutralize it, but it didn't work. Nasty.
Second, the pool was browner than the Gulf of Mexico and the the caretakers shocked the pool to such an extent that black shirts and shorts and suits were literally bleached-which turned them brown.
Third, the air conditioning sucked. I stayed in the master bedroom and the temperature in that room didn't go below 80 degrees. In July. In Texas. The living room got so hot that we could literally see the walls sweating. Legit water stains from that. The entire house was hot.
The entire house needs a paint job and major cosmetic upkeep. There are places where you can tell water entered the house and ruined the baseboards and floor. At some point someone painted over the glass front door with red paint......I'm still trying to figure that out.
The kitchen was nice and big, but the house didn't provide much. When the renter complained the caretakers went and bought things like pots and pans, but it's obvious they have no procedures that keep check of items in the house and whether they were stolen or not.
While we were there the caretakers did come and clean the sheets and change bedsheets, etc. They were very nice, but I think they're just the hired help. Whoever is actually in charge of the estate needs to come and spend some major money to fix it up.
The webpage says the estate can sleep more than 100. Um. No. Not unless those 100'are legit lining the floors with their bodies, and I mean lying flat on their backs on the hard floors and unable to turn over. Do not think you can have more than 100 sleep in this house. If there were a fire you would all die.
The saving grace was that there was a coffee maker, and, wonder of wonders, coffee in the house. That's the one star. The coffee maker and coffee. read more