Claddagh Manor

If you want:
The owner to crash your gathering 3 different times, rent this place
If you want your safety deposit to be cashed before your rental date, rent this place
If you planned on hosting an event here plan on actually having the home for ONLY 3 hours as the owner on one of her unannounced «visits» will ask your guests to leave
If you want to host your best friends 30^th birthday here, have friends fly in form London and other far away places to enjoy the rental be sure to note the house sleeps 24 people at least (its 7,000 sq ft) and anything over that is considered a «rave» by the owner.
If you like getting locked in a bathroom for 15 minutes because the door handle and other amenities are less than kept, rent this place.
If you are in your 30’s, a working professional and like to be berated and treated like a child, rent this place.
Long and short this was the worst business transaction if I can even call it that as that would denote a level of professionalism and ethics that was clearly absent here. Rent at your own risk and please be mindful that what you see is not what you get.

We rented this location for a birthday party in Chicago. The property is nice, although I would not say well kept. For instance within 15 minutes of arriving a handle fell off of the bathroom door locking one of the guests inside for another 15 minutes. The sheets on the beds were also not clean upon arrival. And who wants to pay this kind of $$ to sleep on dirty sheets. That said, these minor inconveniences were far overshadowed by the owner of this location. She was hours late to pick up the payment for the property. During the actual birthday party she showed up to the property unannounced and without reason, decided there were more guests than she expected, started yelling at a group of adults, calling them liars, etc etc. It was the most nonprofessional I have ever seen any «business» person act. To top things off, she 1) cashed the cashiers check we gave her as a deposit (the type of thing you hold, not cash) days before we even had the party, and 2) the refused to repay the $ 600 deposit despite the place being left if perfect condition. Do not do business with this person, she is everything that is ugly and sickening about business transactions.

Please avoid this property at all cost. I’m a victim of the owner scam. We exchanged emails and expressed interest to rent the house for a holiday weekend. We even met with the owner at the property and confirmed our reservation in person and in writing. They confirmed our reservation and we invited our extended family for the vacation but later the owner told us they took someone else’s reservation probably because they paid more. The owner cancelled our reservation without our knowledge. Please be aware of the scam!!!