When we checked in the home was a little dusty and was missing some important things like a broom and dust pan. We noticed that all of the beds were unusually hard as if you were sleeping on a piece of cardboard on the floor. Because of this we had to spend $150 on a memory foam mattress topper that we ended up leaving. We also spent several hundred dollars on other items needed for the home. The neighbourhood was nice and quite but the home had cheap furniture and fixtures. The walls had a poor paint job and was cheaply furnished. The view was very nice and everything we needed was fairly close.
The owner was very nice and brought use a countertop oven since the oven in the home wasn’t working. While we were gone we noticed somethings had been moved. When we ask the host Cindy about it, she lied and said no one entered the home, but she had a cable guy looked into the window and could tell no one was home which is impossible because the living quarters are on the second floor which isn’t visible or accessible from the entry from the first floor. Long story short I ask the owner about it and he admitted to entering the home to fix something. It fine but we would have appreciate if they ask or gave us a heads up, but entering and then lying about it made us feel unsafe. On top of all that we suspected the home had hidden cameras based on some other weird things that happened.
We rented this home for $7,500 for 1 month thinking that would be for the entire home because that’s how it was listed as when we rented it. Then a few days before we left some guy showed up and parked behind our car. I didn’t know what was going on so I contacted the co-host Cindy to ask who he was and why he’s was there. She said he is a long term tenant that lives in an extra room down stairs. I told her I would have never rented the entire home if I would have known someone was living in a room down stairs that had direct access to our living space. The home was listed as a “entire home” and that what we were expecting. When I brought this up to Cindy she started deflecting by saying “Why didn’t you bring this up earlier” and blamed us for not watering the plants. We didn’t bring it up earlier because the guy just showed up one day. I figured the would set up some timed watering system like any other home especially if your are renting it ouas a vacation home. She also said I must have very bad vision if I couldn’t see the plants needed water. (My visions not the best so that hurt my feeling a little bit. lol )Then the day we checkout out they showed up to the house at 10:55am sharp to make sure we checked out at 11am. Again the owner was very nice we just didn’t feel comfortable or safe because of the interaction with the co-host Cindy.