We are renting a condo while we're waiting to move into our home. We don't like it here and can't wait to move. If you ever happen to find yourself coming to Kona for a visit, let us recommend that you stay away from renting anywhere from www.ownerdirect.com. Also stay away from units at Kona Sea Ridge and anyplace managed by the local managers at Property Network. To be fair, I must say that Jeremy thinks the folks at Property Network are fine. I disagree and that's way I'm glad they always call/e-mail Jeremy when they need anything. Thankfully, Jeremy has been up for complaining about all the numerous problems that have needed fixing.
As I was uploading these pictures to the blog, I thought this place doesn't look too bad. Don't be fooled. The condo smells musty and moldy. When we moved in the place was dirty and the first thing we did was spend a small fortune at Costco on cleaning supplies. The fridge has broken down twice. When we moved in all 5 smoke alarms were inop and maintenance men have been out several times working on other various little things throughout the unit. The bugs have been unbearable.....thankfully I have only found 2 small cockroaches and both were dead. We've had ants, centipedes and a horrible spider infestation. One evening, we were getting Jillian settled in bed when Jeremy saw something in her closet. It was a spider bigger than any we have ever seen...3-4 inches, as big or bigger than my fist. Jeremy rescued Jillian and I when he killed the monster. Then we noticed the closet ceiling was like a blanket of her babies....there must have been hundreds, but Jeremy will tell you more like several dozen. I could be exaggerating slightly, I just remember it being horrible. I removed all of her items from the room and proceeded to disinfect everything. We shut the door and completely duct taped all 4 edges. Jillian started sleeping with us. After 3 days, the property manager finally sent over a maintenance guy with a can of bug spray. That did nothing but motivate the baby spiders to get out of the room. After another few days, an exterminator was sent to spray the entire unit. Her room remains taped shut and she is still sleeping with us. We are too creeped out to even enter the spider room. I am not into bugs and this is going to be a hard transition for me. We think the spider was a cane spider. If you're interested, check out this site for some fantastic pictures of the beast. http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hawaii?Animals.cane
Kitchen and living area. 
Living area.
Jillian eating lunch and watching Dora in our room.
The pool....the pool is great and almost redeems the complex.
Jeremy and Jillian having fun swimming. She LOVES the water! :)
On our way to the car, we like to count the slugs and centipedes. We usually see between 5-10 slugs and 2-5 centipedes. Jillian loves all the insects! In this picture, I thought she was pointing to a squished slug. Alas, no, she is actually touching the icky thing.
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