Vietnam-Inspired Lake House, Fenton

Welcome to our serene, sunlit lake house with walk-in beach and dock access to all-sport Crane Lake! This recently renovated home is clean, spacious, and imbued with the artistic sensibilities of our native home of Vietnam. Spend your leisure days wading, swimming, kayaking, fishing or just hanging out by the clear shallow water. Or you may just decide to watch the sun set over the lake from the comfortable sunroom. Within minutes are the award-winning restaurants of lovely downtown Fenton. Guest access HOUSE: The lake house sits at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. The front side meets the street via a long driveway, the back side faces the lake, and the remaining two sides abut the woods. The house has a large open living room, dining room, and kitchen area. A hallway connected to the living room leads to the common full bathroom, the flexible office/3rd bedroom, the second bedroom, the master bedroom with an ensuite full bathroom, and the laundry room. Adjacent to the living room is the spacious and well-lit sunroom that leads to a large backyard facing the lake. LAKE FRONT: The large backyard has 2 outdoor patios, a dining set, a fire pit, a 50-foot beach frontage, and a long wooden dock. GARAGE: 3 adult kayaks, a child kayak, a paddle boat, 5 paddles, and life vests of various sizes are stored in the garage and available for use. PARKING: You can park at least 5 cars in the concrete front courtyard and long asphalt driveway. Please do not park on any of the grass area. WARNING: - Smoking is strictly prohibited inside the house and sunroom. A $1000 cleaning fee will be charged for any sign of smoking. - Maximum occupancy is 7 people. - Please let us know if you will be bringing a pet. - Guests may only start fire in the designated fire pit in the backyard. - Please do not leave children unattended when outside, near lake front, or on the water. - No diving off of the dock. The water near the dock is shallow up to 50 feet out. Other things to note NATURE: This 70-year-old lake house not only faces the lake but abuts the woods on two sides. While this provides for an idyllic and tranquil setting, various wildlife (turtles, geese, cranes, voles, insects, etc.) may come onto the property from time to time. We highly appreciate your assistance in keeping the property clean, properly disposing garbage, not leaving food and crumbs out, and immediately informing us of any incident so that we may promptly rectify the issue. GOOGLE NEST SMART THERMOSTAT: This thermostat is installed in all of our Airbnb homes. We’re not at our Airbnb homes all the time, so it’s our best option as hosts to remotely and automatically regulate and monitor our homes’ temperature to keep our guests comfortable, keep our homes safe by preventing extreme cold from freezing and bursting our water pipes (a common occurrence here in very cold Michigan), and save energy and relieve the energy grid, especially during the high energy demand winter when we may not have guests for weeks. To accomplish all of this, we set the Nest Thermostat to automatically go to “Eco Temperature” of 58 F when a guest is not home; the Nest thermostat will automatically raise the temperature to 68 F when it senses that a guest has entered/re-entered the home via the linked Nest Yale door lock. Without smart thermostats, we would spend much time/effort driving back and forth to control the temperature at our multiple Airbnb homes, and most importantly, we won’t know when our water pipes may freeze and burst due to furnace failure, which happens quite often during the dead of winter when the furnace is at its peak demand and stress. Like all machines, the Nest thermostat is not perfect; our automatic settings can’t and won’t accommodate all situations. Many guests are comfortable with our settings. Some guests feel it’s too hot while others think it’s too cold, especially the Eco Temperature of 58 F (for perspective, Google recommends setting the Eco Temperature to 50 F, while the Eco Temperature is set to 55 F at own home). Some guests became interested in installing a Nest thermostat (or at least a smart one) in the their own homes after using ours. We understand that temperature control is personal and unique to every person. Fighting over the thermostat sometimes occur within our family, which we imagine occurs in many other families. But imagine having to balance the competing temperature preferences of hundreds of guests at seven Airbnb homes and you can understand the impossibility of our task. As such, you’re always welcome to adjust the Nest thermostat to your comfort. If you’re unfamiliar with the Nest thermostat’s operation, please reach out to us, and we will gladly help you adjust the Nest thermostat to best accommodate your unique situation. As always, don’t hesitate to contact us during your stay for any reason, regardless of day/time, as it’s our job to be available 24/7 to do everything we can to rectify any issue preventing you from enjoying your stay.