This home is spacious (yet cozy) and contains the modern amenities we have come to expect when renting vacation homes. Our 9 year-old loved having the downstairs area to herself and particularly enjoyed being able to watch TV on the bigscreen after long days on the road out sightseeing during our stay. It was especially nice to be able to come "home" in the evenings and cook dinner in the large kitchen and then retire to the game room for a few games of pool before going to bed.

Having never been to South Dakota before, we were uncertain about the location and wondered whether it would work for our family. In hindsight, I can say that we nailed it with this location. It really is reasonably close to all of the beautiful sights and tourist attractions that people visiting the area want to see and visit. Our standard response when our daughter asked how far something was from this house was that "it's about an hour away." And that's one of this home's greatest attributes. The home is close to Deadwood for those who want to dine in town for meals, but there is a great little grocery store (Lynn's Dakota Mart) that is 10-15 minutes away (in neighboring Lead) that had all of the necessities that we needed since we chose to cook instead.

Seeing deer while having coffee on the front porch and wild turkey while dining on the back patio was an added bonus!

Although we experienced a hot water shortage a couple of days into our stay (which was a Sunday and thus caused us concern about how timely the issue would be resolved), we contacted Randy by phone to report the problem. Randy immediately contacted someone in the area who came out to the house while we were out sightseeing (so we were not inconvenienced in any way) to remedy the situation. More importantly, Randy called us several times throughout the day to keep us informed about what was happening back at the house. Upon our return that evening, the hot water heater was working fine. Other than this - which was handled timely and satisfactorily - we have nothing but nice things to say about the property.

Randy was a pleasure to work with, and he is the first and only property owner from whom we have rented who emailed me before we even made it back home to inquire about our satisfaction. We appreciate his genuine desire to please his clients and to offer a memorable experience!