The cottage is great, modern, clean, airy, comfortable, elegant, and simple in all the good ways. Love it. Great location.
BUT..... the exterior of the property and access to the door to the living space is not awesome.
We were asked to use the a specific garage bay and a specific path up to the entry way leaving the others for the owner, which would normally be fine, but the pathway designated for us had steps on it WAY out of code and WAY too steep for my elderly dear friend to navigate, and those steps did not have railings. It is simply unsafe for anyone with even a mild impairment to their walking -- even someone who can handle a flight of normal stairs to code.
THE GOOD NEWS is that the local VACASA manager stepped right up when I called, and we determined that there was a way we could continue to use the side of the garage we had been using, but use the pathway on the other side which had proper steps to get access to the building. I'm grateful to both VACASA and to the owner for that flexibility. It was a bit inconvenient, but at least it was workable.
And according to the local manager, the owner has acknowledged the shortcomings on the initially designated pathway and has some intention to remedy that situation.
I would be remiss, however, not to mention also that the property including flagstones on the pathway and on spaces between the flagstones has quite a bit of dog excrement on it, which is also unappealing and needs to be dodged, and it would be great if that was kept a little tidier.