RUN AWAY!
We flew to Florida for our month-long February rental. Arriving at the house, the entire backyard and pool were under-construction. Construction saw-horses, Home Depot buckets, title cutting saws, cut and scrap tile strewn across the pool area, and a very uncompleted pool, we’re quite shocking to see.
When immediately calling the owner and sending him pictures, he indicated that the area did not look as bad as when he had last seen it — except he had seen it just the evening before — so that didn’t make any sense.
It was clear he believed we would keep the rental regardless of the condition given we had planned for visitors over the month rental period. Instead, we canceled the contract on this unlivable house. He did not object — realizing the construction pictures spoke for themselves. Instead, we spent a week touring Florida, then returned home.
There are plenty of VRBO homes to rent. This should not be one of them. While in quaint Boca Grande, the home will be an eye sore in-person even after the backyard renovations are completed. The home spoils the VRBO brand. The owners are not trustworthy.
(If a representative from VRBO would like to see the pictures, I’m willing to send them. To ensure authenticity, they were taken on a iPhone and the meta data has the GPS coordinates).