The house was big and had a lot to offer. The first thing we encountered when entering the kitchen was mouse poop all over the counters and in drawers where silverware and dish towels were housed. We understand a house this old usually has mice come in, especially in the fall. The current owners should have reviewed the property before offering it as a rental and sealed up the many visible access points at the top of the basement stairs and probably under the stove and sink. The second thing we noticed upon arrival as there was no hot water. My husband and son did everything the rental management told us to do and eventually we were told there was a re-set switch at the bottom of the water heater. This helped, but we had to re-set it twice a day and wait for the water to heat up in the tank. We had to strategically plan our showers, cooking and dish washing around it if we wanted hot water. This was very annoying. We rented this house because we have numerous food allergies and other special needs that required us to prepare, cook and wash dishes from 3 meals a day! Can you imagine doing this with hit or miss hot water??? Plus, we stacked all our food in packaging or ziplock bags on the nice, large island, so we could have it as an accessible pantry. To our surprise we woke up on our first morning to find holes in the ziplocks where the mice had a midnight snack!!! After that we had to store everything in our big plastic totes and cooler! There is more...........