Plenty of good qualities to this property— nice open space, nice kitchen, well appointed. But there were spiderwebs in the living room, some deeply stained chairs, the AC broke halfway through the trip, the ice maker was broken, and something is severely wrong with the water system. We tried to be very gentle with it, but pressure was irrational, water stopped working altogether, and the water tank — which is in the hallway between bedrooms— tinkled constantly. When it rained, the ceiling leaked. We wanted to love this house. The creek is charming , but the house is crazy close to the street. The house is on the market, so ppl would park in the yard and look through the big open windows at us. We felt exposed.
We made the best of it. The most important thing was that we were together. But it just kept making it too hard to forget about cleanliness and maintenance and the outside world looking in.