Starting with the positive… The house was quite clean and has the Bozeman charm with some nice updates, although it was fairly sparse. Convenient to downtown. Communication with the owners was good as well. We didn’t notice anyone living upstairs, which I was glad of.
The problems… it’s directly on Main Street with no access from the back. There is a driveway from Main St. but we didn’t use it because it was such a pain to back out. We parked on the street instead. Not too big a deal, but the traffic was constant. I couldn’t sleep all week. I was on the verge of tears by the end of the week from lack of sleep. There is also a street light shining directly into the bedroom and there are no curtains. That’s one star down.
The second star down is the fact that the storm windows are apparently permanently on. In the middle of summer, this is a major issue. This house, like 90% of the houses in Bozeman, does not have AC - totally normal. (Don’t be fooled by the thermostat like I was at first!). Couldn’t open the house, so it was so uncomfortably warm. It got up to near 80 consistently inside. And we couldn’t open the windows, which was incredibly frustrating. The only way to get air flow was to open the front and back doors, which we couldn’t do while out of the house or at night. The portable fans in the house were too loud to sleep with, so along with the traffic it was too warm to sleep. The temperature can be helped at least by removing the storm windows.
:-/