This apartment ( it is the lower level of the building, NOT the entire home) is nice. It was clean and comfortable, and the location is great. HOWEVER…
Monday morning of our weeklong rental, painters started at 7:30 AM setting up, scraping and grinding outside our windows. We let it slide for one day, but when it happened again on Tuesday, I called Ron, the owner, who told me it wasn’t his fault. His upstairs co owner had hired “ his guys” to paint the exterior. He said that he didn’t know anything about it. He tried to tell me not to worry about the dust and possible lead in the scrapings because “ they don’t put lead in the paint anymore.” As a 30 year construction manager, I hated being “mansplained” to. It so happens that lead was still in most paint until the 70’s . If painters are grinding and scraping down to the wood(which they were), in older homes it is likely that lead is in the paint. Had it been tested? I’m sure not.
Anyway, Wednesday morning, same story, same painters at 8 AM. I called Ron again and told him we were leaving as we could not use the home ( 2 people were trying to work from the place and the front porch was unusable). When I saw him at the property as our last person was moving out, he was rude and unapologetic. I asked him to consider a rebate and he gave me some snarky response about it not being his fault.
Later, to his credit, he did give us the equivalent of 1-3/4 nights rent, despite us leaving 2 days early and having 3 days unusable.