The house was perfect for what we were looking for and the owner was very responsive when we ran into issues. Specifically, the rug looks beautiful in the photos but I guess the guests prior to us left it in a pretty poor state. The owner worked as quickly as she could to have a professional service come in and clean it, for which we are very grateful. The rug looked good as new after that. Other than that, the place was great for our needs.
My major gripe is actually with the HOA.
1. They don't let non-owners park at the main HOA beach on holidays. I booked this property because it was close to the beach but it's much better to drive to when you have kids and all their gear. While you can park slightly shy of a quarter-mile outside the gates of the beach and they did let us do a drop off of our gear, it was not ideal experience.
2. They make non owners who already have their passes into the community wait in excessively long lines to enter the community each time you leave, even though they have a completely empty owners line. I image this is not an issue on a non-holiday weekend but it was annoying for us.
2. The main HOA beach itself was covered with geese poo (I mean inches there was a poo dropping). Someone was there sort of cleaning it up but it was well after open time when we saw him and he probably left 15-25% of the droppings behind. Apparently, the other beaches in the HOA are much better so I highly recommend someone go there.
2. We were also looking forward to eating at the restaurant at the main beach but the food was so bad and greasy we only did it once and regretted it.