The home was cozy and fit our needs; it was not far from downtown and convenient to the coliseum. It was clean and pleasant. The neighborhood was quiet; I appreciated having a yard and it being pet friendly. My biggest issue was not getting a reply to my request to check in a couple hours early...there was no booking immediately prior to ours and the house was open for at least a day prior to our arrival. I offered to pay a pro-rated fee to be able to do so. I made the request several times with no response. It was a great inconvenience to drive past the house as we came into the Charleston area, and have to kill time for multiple hours until we could check in. We had a dog; that was one reason we selected this listing. We came from Atlanta, had to drive past the house to downtown Charleston and had to hang around the waterfront area for several hours with the dog, killing time not being able to do much because of the dog. It was too hot for him to be left in the car. Yet, I received an email (maybe auto-generated?) saying that the place was available a day plus before we arrived if we wanted to add another day on...yet could get no response to my inquiry to check in early. Otherwise the stay was fine.