Main House + Guest Unit! 5 Bed / 3.5 Bath, Oakland Hills

Pros: The house is spacious with stunning views and nice neighborhood. It accommodated our group of 7 easily. It’s easy access to parks, shopping the highway and much more. The porches are delightful. The hosts are very responsive and helpful in trouble shooting problems.Notes since we travelled with elders: there are no stairs to get to the property but all the bedrooms are downstairs.Cons (but fixable):- Our kid has a dust mite allergy and had one of the worst reactions in this place. We did not expect this and actually rented it in part cause of the lack of rugs. However, the area rugs were filthy. Our feet were also dirty after walking bare feet - we don’t think the place was properly vacuumed. They came to remove the carpet and vacuum the place which was helpful. The place could still use a mopping between stays - some parts of the floor were sticky. We bought houses shoes to wear. For a 600 cleaning fee we expect a lot more then surface cleaning. - The place needs fine tuning on the basics like curtains in the all the bedroom that block light (the morning light is intense), vents in all bedrooms, or enough supplies like dishes. For us it’s less important it looks fancy and more important it’s functional. - We never used the pool it was too cold and we didn’t want to pay another 400 to heat it up. It also gets a lot of leaves in it throughout the day.

Great view, convenient neighborhood

We booked this property on fairly short notice after another reservation was canceled on us, and we felt fortunate to find such a nice spot to be our home base for our daughter's dropoff for her first year at UC Berkeley. The safe and beautiful location was ideal for our last-minute Target/Ikea/etc. runs and it was easy to get DoorDash and enjoy home meals with the gorgeous view. We also had some nice meals out, especially dinner at Lake Chalet on Lake Merritt and lunch outdoors at Broderick Roadhouse in Walnut Creek, as well as Super Duper Burgers near campus for a quick and convenient meal. If you're hoping to use the pool, be ready to use the skimmer because it's beautifully wooded around the property, and splurge on the heating option because even in late August it was chilly without.Our hosts were super polite and responsive and we can see why they will soon be achieving super host status!

wonderful setup for a large family gathering. we had 11 in our group with adequate sleeping accomodations for everyone nad lots of open living space for the group on the main floor. having all the bedrooms on the lower level was very helpful with the young children we had.location was very convenient for activities in oakland/berkeley area.