Sometimes the devil is in the details, that’s what they always say anyways.
Recently I found out that this was absolutely the case when it came to finding a sufficient rental on my family vacation.
I really didn’t have high hopes for our living conditions when we were going out of the state. Because I’m traveling with three kids and a dog and a life I knew that the options would be somewhat limited within our budget. I didn’t want to be stuck at an uncomfortable hotel, crammed into one room with the tiny heating and cooling system again. I’ve been burned too many times by broken mini split ductless heating and cooling systems that are often located in the cheap highway hotels that we frequent. Of course, I thought I had learned my lesson and decided to opt for an AirBnB rental to circumvent the option for a broken air handling device. Well, we didn’t wind up with a broken heating and cooling system at our family AirBnB, instead we wound up with absolutely no indoor air handling control devices at all. When we arrived at the rental I thought that the indoor air felt a bit stagnant and humid. However, I figured no one had been staying in the rental and operating the air conditioning system for a few days. I searched around for the thermostat so I could change the indoor air quality control settings and get some indoor comfort for my family. Unfortunately, no matter what I did the thermostat remained elusive. Eventually I contacted the owner of the airbnb and asked about the central HVAC system. That’s when they told me, there was no indoor air handling device. Apparently I should have checked the rental description in better detail.