Home in White Lake

Welcome to our vibrant, sunlit lake bungalow with walk-in beach and dock access to all-sport Pontiac Lake! This airy and inviting home is imbued with the artistic sensibilities of our native home of Vietnam. Spend your leisure days swimming, kayaking, fishing or just wading in the clear shallow water. Or you may just enjoy the sun rise over the lake from behind the large kitchen windows. Within minutes are Alpine Valley Ski and the amazing hiking/bike trails of Pontiac Lake Recreation Area. Guest access HOUSE: The rectangular house has one short side facing the street and the other short side facing Pontiac Lake. The interior of the house has three bedrooms, an open living room/dining area, a full bathroom with bathtub, and a full kitchen adjacent to laundry. LAKE FRONT: The back has a spacious deck with an outdoor dining area overlooking an open grassy backyard adjacent to the lake. There's a dock, a small sandy beach, a fire pit, 2 adult kayaks, and a child kayak. PARKING: You can park 2 cars on the concrete driveway and fit 3 cars by overlapping on the grassy areas to the driveway's left & right. Inside garage parking is not possible as it's now a storage area and part of the house's interior. WARNING: - Smoking is strictly prohibited inside the house. A $1,000 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 very shallow. Other things to note NATURE: Due to the house's lake front 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. WELL WATER: Like many Michigan lake houses, our house uses well water from deep underground via a well pump. Michigan’s well water is iron and sulfur rich and has a slight rotten egg smell that can be unpleasant for some guests. Additionally, since our well pump is electrically powered, our house will temporarily lose running water on rare occasions of electrical power outage. GOOGLE NEST SMART THERMOSTAT: This thermostat is installed in all of our Airbnb homes. We’re not at our Airbnb homes at all times, 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.