This vacation rental was not what we expected.
When we checked in we noticed a few things that were not like the pictures and description but did not make a big deal about it because they seemed pretty minor individually. The grass was not the green lawn in the pictures. It was dead dirt with dog poop left from the tenant renting the unit on the first floor. It was not pleasant to walk on barefoot from the beach. The description listed AC in the bedrooms but the AC did not keep the rooms comfortable until the sun went down. The living and kitchen areas had no AC and would get uncomfortably hot during the day. There is a nice hardwood floor in the pictures but actual floor is a vinyl laminate that looks like a kid installed it. There are 1/2” gaps to the walls with no molding which make sweeping up sand impossible. The smoke alarm would trigger whenever any basic cooking was being done. The garage door opener worked about 50% of the time. There are many lights that are burnt out. No extra pillows or sheets - just what is on the beds. The restroom exhaust vent makes a noise that scared my 8 yr old kid and the hot water was scolding hot. We notified the island host of the hot water issue and he agreed that something was wrong and adjusted the hot water but it did not make a difference.
Aside from all of those issues the main problem we had was rodents, rodent and gecko droppings and an unresponsive host and local management company. We noticed after a few days that we would get droppings on the bed sheets and on the floors in the bedrooms. We notified the host and owner and after a few days they came with glue traps. They said they would get exterminators out but never did. The trap caught a mouse which we saw a few night before. We notified the owner and island manager and it took over 48 hours for them to come and clear the trap. I would have done it myself but it would have required moving the washer/ dryer unit which I was not comfortable doing. We continued to see droppings on my son’s pillow and sheets and the management was totally unresponsive. We had to engage AirBnB support on the issue and we are still dealing with the resolution. The host relies on an island management company which completely dropped the ball on our stay. They would not respond to text messages and said told us they were out of town one weekend and on another weekend they were in Idaho.
I advise against staging here. The location is great but the host does not care about providing a good experience for their guests. They are milking the unit for all the money they can get and that is it.