This is a very nice house on the shore of a nice lake. The views are really beautiful. The overall layout of the house is great. It has all the potential of being a 5-star rental, but just fell short in so many ways, that I could only give it 3-stars. The main floor has a kitchen, dining room, powder room and great room that are spacious and well decorated. The upstairs has 2 bedrooms and a bathroom and a master bedroom and bathroom. The beds are very comfortable. The property description says that the house will sleep 15, but I'm not sure that's accurate. There are enough beds to sleep 8, and I can't imagine fitting another 7 people on the 3 couches in the house.
When we arrived at the house, it was dirty. Part of the issue is the dark hardwood floors throughout the house that show any and all dust and dirt. In addition to this, however, there were clods of dirt on the floors as if it hadn't been vacuumed. I found a broom and vacuum and got to work immediately, and it didn't take long to clean the floors. We also contacted the property owner, who was very apologetic and even waived our cleaning fee, which was nice.
The house wasn't stocked well, which was especially disappointing considering that the closest grocery store was not all that close. There wasn't any dishwashing soap, paper towels, napkins or laundry detergent at the house. There were very few spices at the home. For example, there was salt, but no pepper. There were empty containers of cooking spray and oil in the cupboards. There were so few dishes and glasses that we needed to run the dishwasher after every meal so that we would have enough to use at our next meal. We ended up having to go to to grocery store to get what we needed.
The barbecue was a Traeger which required pellets and only got up to about 275F at its hottest. We had to abandon our plans to barbecue the first night we arrived when, after 20 minutes on the grill, our burgers were still raw. Our kids were excited about making smores on with the firepit/coffee table pictured in the photos of the home, but both propane tanks on the deck were empty, so we had to abandon that plan, as well.
There are not window coverings on all of the bedroom windows and all of the bedrooms have skylights. Our kids rose with the sun because of this, so there was no sleeping in for any of us.
With more attention to detail and a few tweaks, this 3-star could be a 5-star getaway, but it fell short for us.