The place was dirty when we arrived, hair on the stove, dirty counters and such. Turned on the water and the smell of sulfur filled the house.
The bedroom on the main floor, has a door that says “Stay out – private”. You cannot open it from your side but you have no way of keeping others from coming in through that door right where you are sleeping. It connects to the other half of the house where I believe the host resides. Very, very creepy!
We try and lock up the house for the night. The front and back doors don't lock. This is very disconcerting.
At bedtime, I find mice poo on my pillow and night stand. It wasn’t there earlier. Now at 11pm, I am stuck. It was a very long night of sitting up on the sofa not wanting to sleep and debating if I should go sleep in my car. Before leaving in am, we speak with Patricia. She says we should not worry about safety, it is a very safe neighborhood. She knew about 1 of the doors not working and said if we tried hard enough we could get one of the doors to lock. Then when we told her about the mice, she said we were in the country and should expect critters in the house.
While we were out, we get a message that she put a mouse trap in the silver drawer where the mice usually go and that she tried getting a handyman but no luck yet. Ick!!!! When we get back to property we find more mice droppings now upstairs where there were none before, this is awful. We open the silverware drawer to find the mouse trap she set and the mice poo right next to the trap that she didn’t even bother to clean up. I have pictures, it was disgusting. We finally give up, we are not staying any longer. I let her know we appreciate her efforts but we are uncomfortable and need to find different accommodations. We ask if she has another property available, she does but says we would find it unsuitable as well. Then I ask her to please refund us the remaining two nights as we would like relocate.
She tells us to start the process with VRBO. I ask if she is going to approve the refund. She says “no, this is how I make my living”. “I just didn’t like the place from the beginning and that is the problem”. She proceeds to tell me “Good luck! Sometimes VRBO sides with the guest, but most of the time with the host. So good luck getting your refund!” Wow!
There are a lot other issues too many to name.... Ruined our a chunk of our trip! I have pictures & video proof of statements made !