Booked this house for my May 1st Stetson Law graduation ceremony, brunch and dinner. Choose bc kitchen (entertaining purposes), split floor plan, pool, several rooms/open spaces for Covid spacing, W/D and large TV so they could watch me walk from the house. Stayed about 4 nights. Check in, house size and neighborhood were nice, but there’s a lot of issues with the “upgrades.” Namely, it looks good but isn’t functional. It’s like the joke abt “all the little things you’d do if you were a burglar but could only do things to annoy house occupants” came true: glass stovetop was cracked, Dryer is only show model (didn’t work/turn on), dishes were in dishwasher and still DIRTY (why’d I pay a cleaning fee when I washed everything myself by hand?), full trash bags by side door/outter trashcan were full (good thing I brought my own trash bags), bedroom ceiling fan lights had fake or no pulls (didn’t turn on), baskets were bottomless (huh?), kitchen cabinet handles weren’t tightened/came off (good thing we had screw driver), there’s wine but no wine opener (again, we had our own since we also brought wine), wooden chairs were flimsy (entire chair back comes off when you lift chair to sit down; apparently, they’re just press-in mdf construction), yard has basketball hoop/net but 2 flat b-balls, boyfriend cleaned pool (again, cleaning fee for what?), no comforters for both top and bottom bunk beds (i brought my own blanket, towels and pillow case and encouraged the others to do the same. The one who didn’t claimed she came home with bed bugs), guest bdrm closet is off track so you can open but not completely close them. Most of the issues were spotted when the others would say “Really?” and ask for my phone. I’d come over and check it out despite being busy as the JD grad so I didn’t appreciate having to deal with superficial upgrades meant to mask real problems. Granted, the agent sent someone to collect the garbage leftover from the previous guest and said he knew about the broken glass top (that the part was ordered and it was safe to cook on). He also offered to send cleaning crew back to clean kitchen but I had already hand washed each dish and urged others to use our disposable utensils from now on. Overall, we made it work but I don’t think it’s worth around $1500 - especially when it wasn’t even basic clean much less COVID clean. I’d prefer to be compensated for my cleaning fee and for those superficial upgrades to be substantially addressed.
