So starting with the good things about this rental. Location, Location, Location. A very short walk to a small grocery store and Ice Cream shop. A long walk to the local Co-op fishing wharf and a great restaurant. It is also a very short drive to a sandy beach, rocky shores and picturesque Pemaquid Point. The house had many neat antique decorations and accents. Modern kitchen amenities.

Now the bad....

1. Back door does not lock, well it locks but the lock in the door doesn't secure the door so there is no way to secure your belongings when you leave the house. Not that there is probably much crime in the area but the lack of security might be an issue for some.

2. No family dining space. There is no dining area big enough for the family to sit around. There is a table outside but if there is bad weather the umbrella attached to the table barely covers the table itself.

3. Grill is old and falling apart.

4. Musty smell in the house once the air freshener from the cleaners wore off. Some sort of rotting/growing potatoes in the basement might have been the cause.

5. Zero cell service and no internet at the house even though it has cable and phone service from a provider that could easily provide internet/wireless for those wanting or needing such access.

6. It says two baths but one is just an old tub. There is only one shower that all of us used while there and it is downstairs and all the bedrooms are upstairs.

7. No AC so the steamy Maine summer weeks can make the house stuffy especially towards the evening.

8. Very disjointed and slow communication from the owner. Some times it took weeks and multiple sendings to get answers to simple questions via email. When I brought up a couple of the issues after the week the owner got very snarky.

9. BUGS! Twice I opened kitchen cabinets to find bugs running across the plates. When packing up I saw another bug scurrying in the dresser drawer when I removed my clothes.