We rented this home 3 years ago and had to cancel it twice due to Covid. Our family still wanted to spend our vacation there, due to its unique location, and so we did. This home is quite beautiful - built the way homes should be: with style and substance, and the location is pastoral, with great views of Lake Champlain. It is quiet on S. Hero Island. The furnishings are just as interesting as the house - aesthetically, this home is a “home-run” in my opinion.
That being said, we had some surprises both before we arrived and when we arrived. Before we arrived, there was a breakdown in communications as to how we would get inside this house. There is a registration process for this owners’ insurance coverage, that we never were able to complete. Fortunately, I began the process earlier than necessary, as communicating with the owner, who is very, very busy, was difficult. We did finally get the code to the keyless entry the day before we left Ohio. I received the entry code from the owner after I contacted Evolve. This might not seem like a big deal, but we lost a lot of confidence in this owner when he did not follow-through as he said he would.
When we arrived at the house, we found that the air conditioning units in the house were portable stand alone units in each bedroom as well as a through the wall unit in the dining room. The dining room A/c was fine. The bedrooms however, are vented through the bedroom windows. They are loud, and you must turn them off and close the window when it rains. This was disappointing in the upstairs bedrooms especially when it rained -
As for the plumbing, the drains were slow in the kitchen, there was a strange odor in the Jack and Jill bathroom and there was an airlock in the waterlines. Nothing too earth shattering here, but these are maintenance issues that should be dealt with before guests arrive.
There are a couple of safety issues: no railing down the basement steps, the end of the boat dock is unstable.