PROS:
-Dog friendly! They provided "dog sheets" which were great to cover furniture and put on the floor for doggy food messes.
-Excellent location, can't beat it: off the beaten path enough that it’s quiet and peaceful, but 5 minute walk to the beach, and only 2 blocks off the main drag (Laneda Ave.)
-Water gets very hot and very cold, good water pressure.
-They provide tons of extra towels.
-Nice back yard for lounging, bbq-ing or letting the dog out. The back yard overlooks the golf course.
CONS:
-This house does NOT have cable, as was advertised. There was a message saying the service needed to be renewed or updated.
-The TV is very old and bad picture quality anyway.
-Many lightbulbs were out or missing from sockets, and the lighting that did work was very dim.
-Sliding screen door to the back yard doesn't slide and the screen is broken.
-No cutting board in the kitchen and the stove heating element were smoking when we turned them on.
-Pillows in the bedroom are very worn out, thinned out, and uncomfortable.
-No blackout curtains in bedroom, and it stays very light in there. Hard to sleep.
-Generally there could be many inexpensive quick updates to this place that would make a world of difference, but if the owner cared it would have been done by now. The only update has been the cost to rent it.
In conclusion: there’s a reason it was the last place available in the entire manzanita vicinity this weekend. But if you want a quiet, well-located, dog-friendly, dingy little place without cable and bad lighting this is for you! We were grateful to get a place that we could bring our puppy and that didn’t completely break the bank, so it was ok for us this weekend, but I couldn’t help but look around and think how much better it could be with some simple and inexpensive updates.