After booking, it got impossible to contact the owner: they did not respond to emails sent via VRBO, to text messages or phone calls. Even after being contacted via VRBO 68 hours before the rent started, I only got a response because I googled the owner and phoned her business partner at their business. This meant an enormous stress and waste of holiday time for my husband and myself! We spent 2 half days just trying to get in touch with the owner!

I requested the property to be cleaned before we arrived and it was not:

- hairs in the shower,

- dead old bugs on the floor in every room and under the floor mats,

- dirty refrigerator filled with old food,

- broken sockets in almost every room,

- mice extrements in the corners and mice smell in the bathroom,

- dusty shelves in the bathroom,

- stinky bathroom that has been producing a weird and old smell since we arrived.

You can expect more when you pay an exceptionally high cleaning fee of several hundred dollars!

In addition to the dirt, the place is not as advertised on VRBO:

- The master bedroom had only a light bulb, but no lamp, - the shower in the master bathroom is a disgust for 1000 USD/a night

- there is mold on the main windows on the master bedroom.

- The advertisement of the house says has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, as well that hat all of the bedroom have ocean view! However, only two bathrooms are available and one of the bedrooms is a better walk through back room to the outside garage with only a sky light.

- The prized garden by landscapes architects is - compared to the neighboring gardens - in a bad condition : muddy, no garden work done for months, dead plants, the patio and the chairs dirty.

When trying to light the fire the second time, the chimney vent malfunctioned and we had smoke in the living room "for dinner". The malfunction could have been easily avoided, if the fire place was installed properly by the owners.

We are aware that the property is on the ocean surrounded by nature after a rainy winter. Taking the more the very high rent for the property into consideration, you can definitely expect a proper condition of the house: cleaned and well taken care of and in the advertised condition.

In fact, we consider to have left the house cleaner than when we arrived!!