The house itself is beautiful and in a prime location to see the red rocks driving up to the house. The view itself from the house is a bit obstructed with trees, but still lovely. However, we were quite disappointed in the amount of functional maintenance items wrong with the home.
I'll first say that the owner's daughter greeted us and let us know of some electrical problems they were having, and was very up front about those issues, which were fixed by our second full day there. The owners also refunded us one night's stay for that inconvenience, so I won't go into the issues the electrical problems caused as those are now fixed. However, there were other items wrong with this house that are easily fixable that I hope the owner's take the time to correct.
1) The A/C does not work. We had the house set on 70 and by mid-day, it was the temperature of the outside, so between 85 and 87 degrees, and the house did not cool off until around 2AM, even after we opened all the windows. This was a very big problem, and we did inform the owner's daughter multiple times of this issue.
2) The ceiling fan in the master bedroom is unusable. It is barely attached to the ceiling and so noisy that you can't possibly sleep with it...which not having a working A/C made our nights very miserable.
3) The handle on the hot water in the master bath tub falls off every time you touch it. So anytime we wanted to use it, we had to wedge the handle back on, then take it off, then put it back on to turn the water off. This should be an easy fix, which for some reason, has not been fixed.
4) The master bathroom is only halfway painted. This, obviously, is not a functional issue, but after everything else we dealt with, we had to laugh.
5) The floors were filthy. We have an 8 month old so were on the floor with her pretty regularly. Our feet and socks were gray and black with dirt after walking around on the floors.
This property could be an A+ with just a few days of elbow grease. I hope the owners take the time to fix these issues so future renters can enjoy their stay. Unfortunately, we cannot recommend this rental until some much needed maintenance is done.