Large Lakefront House with Gazebo and Wrap Around Porch

I have 3 siblings and we rotate Christmas, this year was my year. All of us have children and some of our children have had children so our house was not adequate. This house was perfect! We all took a bedroom and had our kids in our room on the floor on an air mattress, plenty of room! With the ping pong, and the basketball, we hooked the wii up in the other room, it was a great place to gather and yet not be on top of each other. Kitchen is small, but I prepped everything before we came. Shower head needs to be fixed, but the place was clean and roomy and Dave was great to work with! One of the nice things I notice, was down the lake people had decorated for the holidays so those were fun to look at. My year turned out great, and I know it was because of renting this house. Thanks Dave!

We rented this property for 5 children, ages 7 to 15, the parents and two sets of grandparents. The house was charming and appropriate for our family of 11 with respect to sleeping arrangement (6 bedrooms on 2 upper floors), eating (sufficient kitchen and 9 foot table), entertainment (TVs and pool table) and the air conditioning was a blessing. However, we had a few concerns with regard to the house. First, if you were going to have a shower, you had to make everyone aware of it to ensure no one flushed a toilet or turned on water elsewhere making your shower dangerously hot . Another point was with regard to one of the box spring/mattresses. We had to move the beds around so the 7 year old used it as it was way past its usefulness as a bed for an adult. We were also expecting to watch activity on the lake through the telescope but it did not work.

With regard to the property, we could not figure out how it could be described as "lakefront" as there were houses on all four sides and only a common ground that actually led to the lake. There is no way the picture of the house taken from the water on the property listing could have been taken in the recent past. Also, there was no access to the water. We took a lot of water toys, blow-up raft and dingy for the kids, but couldn't use them. A break wall barrier and algae covered cement pieces made it impossible to get into the water. We had to use the cars to drive to a beach where we had to pay admission each day. The listing also advertised the marina as being 1/4 mile away, but you can't get there without driving back to the highway.
While we would not return to this property, we feel it is important that anyone renting it should know what they are getting and not getting for their money. The house itself is wonderful, but if you are expecting a lakefront property where you can sit along side the lake while the children played in the water, you won’t get it here.

Our family of eight adults and four young children tremendously enjoyed a week in June of 2010 in this delightful, large, and welcoming house. There were plenty of places for all of us to gather together, or to find a place where we could be alone. The bedrooms and full baths were spacious, beds comfortable, awesome porches, long dining room table big enough for all, plenty of TV's, wireless, lots of outdoor space, large fire pit, great garage for the kids to play in - something for all. Best of all, it was a place in which our family could deepen our bonds as we gathered from the states of Iowa, Georgia, and Connecticut. We will definitely be back if our schedules allow it.