We were so excited about this home. We ended up paying more than our budget because it had so much fun outdoor activities (dart, poker table, swimming pool, and hot tub, snooker table, hammocks etc.), and this was particularly important to us during COVID since we could not go out much while in quarantine.
However, when we arrived at the home, we realized quickly that the photos were misleading: Photos showed everything much larger and more spacious in size. The pool was not as large as we anticipated, the hammocks were missing, the poker table was missing, the dartboard was not hung up and missing the darts, and the snooker table was in a small weird space where one side of it was too close to a load-bearing wall so hitting the balls from that side was very awkward. There was also a hanging light fixture, which should have been on top of the snooker table, but it was apparent that somebody had moved the snooker table at least a few feet away from where it used to be, so one of the grown-ups ended up hitting his head not realizing how short the light fixture was mounted.
As far as the home, we knew going in that the interior was old and needed an upgrade, but we didn't care, because the photos had made the outside (pool and all the activities I mentioned) look so beautiful that we figured with 4 kids we would prefer all those bells and whistles instead. However, the dishwasher flooded at the first use and smelt foul! We ended up washing all our dishes by hand for the first 1.5 days. This was incredibly inconvenient, given the fact that we were not going out to eat and we were cooking all our own food, and with 8 people (4 kids), we were making a lot of dishes! To add to all this, the air conditioner kept running at weird temperatures, even though we kept trying to set it to the requested 76 degrees that were noted in the instructions. Overall, the inside of the home, especially the kitchen area felt so old that we were worried to break something if we touched it.
Now, some of the positives: the property representative was generally prompt and responsive. She did send a maintenance guy to put the dartboard up and replace the dishwasher the next day. She was also able to control the air conditioner remotely, so she helped fix that problem. After searching around the house, I was able to find a poker table top that was sitting in a closet, that we ended up putting on top of a table outside so we can play.