This is a cute house with lots of privacy. There were a couple of disappointments though. The gas fireplace that was advertised in their description turned out to be a woodburning one with a gas lighter. On check in you're instructed not to use it, so if you use a gas fireplace as one of your filters (like I do), you will want to skip this one. Walking into a disappointment isn't a great start to a vacation. Hopefully they can install a gas insert in the future, the mantle is beautiful, but unfortunately useless. The BBQ's poor condition (including a broken gas burner's pipe) was really disappointing as well. The shredded BBQ cover and screens I'm sure were the result of the recent windstorm, but you want your BBQ in good shape if your kitchen range top doesn't have ventilation (it's plumbed for downward ventilation, so hopefully they will upgrade the next one for that). One of the weirdest things was the lack of a good wine corkscrew - you will want to bring your own, along with some things you will need for cooking including parchment paper, ziplocks, Reynold's wrap, Tupperware containers, and cling wrap. The house is also showing some needs of maintenance, a plugged rain gutter with some water damage to the house, stucco repair, and will need to eventually be repainted. It might be easiest for the owners to require that the property manager's stay at the location for a couple of days to experience what the needs are. The communication with the property manager was poor. It took two messages ahead of our stay to receive a message from someone in the office who wasn't familiar with the house. The VRBO messaging then had issues while we were there. This is a cute place, but needs some work to make it a great place worth staying.
