If you value your health, don't stay here!
This house has excessively high mold levels, and Glenda doesn't believe it is a problem because it isn't black mold. If you do your research, mold of any kind is not good for your body, especially with how high it is in this house. I had to hire a professional mold testing company (which cost us over $1000) to prove how high the levels were, and most of the house had thousands to tens of thousands of mold spores higher than it should. Medical research shows that you don't want the inside levels of mold to surpass the outside naturally-occurring levels. The outdoor environment at this house tested at 480 spores/m^3. The main floor rooms (which is most of the house as there is only one bedroom upstairs) tested at 2,900 and 5,700 spores/m^3. The kids' room was the most egregious room at 94,000 spores/m^3!
Before I rented from Glenda, I asked if there was mold in the house because I'm allergic to it, and she said no. After we checked in, she did not believe me when I told her the house intensely smelled of mold. Even after getting the professional mold test, which showed exponentially high levels of mold, she would not give us a refund and held to her story that because it was not black mold, it wasn't that bad for your health.
My whole family (including my husband, my 3-year-old son, and my 7-month-old infant) was so sick for the six days we stayed there. Our symptoms included coughing, burning lungs, headaches, nausea, vomiting, edema, and very itchy and red eyes. We were miserable. Glenda had no compassion for us and wouldn't even give us a partial refund for the days we did not stay at the house so we could move to another mold-free home in Oahu.
We spent over $26,000 on this rental, as the minimum rental period in Oahu is 30 days, and we had to pay for the Hawaii Transient Accommodation taxes ($3,600) on top of the advertised rental fee on Airbnb. We rented for 33 days and only stayed for 6 days before we couldn't take the poor air quality and negative impact on our physical health. It was a complete loss. We have not received any money back from Glenda or Airbnb. We also had to spend another $28,000 on a different rental on Oahu to get out of this moldy house so we could feel physically better again. We had to move, and we had to move right away. We are very healthy people, and I couldn't stand to see my little 7-month-old baby coughing any longer. This was a very expensive ordeal — financially and for our physical health and wellness. We went to Hawaii to relax in paradise and found ourselves in a nightmare.
Although this house is in a great location near the beach with a pool (and you can't beat Kailua), think twice before you rent for a whole month, as you will not get your money back if the mold negatively affects you too.
**Please know that for this house to be liveable, it needs a complete overhaul — general cleaning will not suffice. I have 30+ pictures from the professional mold testing company of mold in the closets, on the furniture, baseboards, and under the beds — it's everywhere. The professional mold testing company even said mold is probably in the bedding and other textiles. To remove the intense smell of mold from our clothes after we moved out of Glenda's house, I had to wash all of our clothes three times with hydrogen peroxide.