I have stayed in a few VRBO homes that I have booked myself or with friends and I have never felt more worried about being in a home than this one. The list of rules and fines was interesting, the two cameras at the front door and the one at the back door had all of us weirded out.
The whole point of staying in a VRBO was to be able to enjoy our kids baseball games and then eat meals that we had planned to make in the home. The oven didn’t work, when I made a breakfast casserole Friday morning I thought I didn’t leave in the oven long enough, but then that evening when I put a large pan of lasagna in for well over an hour it didn’t cook! I was planning on feeding 11 people! We ended up spending money on pizza! I was told that I would get reimbursed for it, but have not heard from the owners
The fridge filter light was on meaning it needed to be replaced, so to compensate for that there was a pitcher with a water filter in it in order to have ‘filtered’ water.
What made me frustrated was that we as the guests were expected to be held to a certain standard with all of the rules, but yet the home was not clean, oven didn’t work, soap dispenser in master bath was empty (I wasn’t comfortable snooping around cabinets to find soaps with feeling like I was being watched), one of the bedroom beds had a hard mattress.
I did contact the owner about the oven and was asked if I tried messing with settings and was told that the stove was fairly new, which was surprising because it was dirty inside like stuff had spilled over.
The grill we used to grill burgers still had food in it from it possibly being used before us and the tank was empty.
I have never been so disappointed staying in a home and more embarrassed that I had booked this property for our four families.
I do hope to get at least get a refund from one of my meals.