The home was lovely. It had everything we needed, was clean and comfortable with great appliances. The master bed was on the hard side, but we fixed that by putting an extra comforter under the mattress pad. The other beds were comfortable and the rooms were nicely decorated.
Our only challenge was the next door neighbors. I realize that the homeowner does not have control over this, but it was enough of an upsetting experience that I would like to give the homeowner and any future guests a “heads up.” When we first arrived, the neighbor came over with his two dogs off-leash, introducing himself and his dogs. His dogs ran all over the front lawn and up on the front porch, so we had a little bit of difficulty moving our things into the house while keeping his dogs out, until we said goodbye and finished up. The next day, as my adult daughter was letting our dogs play in the front yard, partially on their property, his wife opened the door and started yelling at my daughter “Can you not?!.” My daughter apologized and, although there was no clear demarcation of the boundary between the yards, never again let our dogs in any “questionable area” of the lawn. We walked the dogs on other side walks and grassy areas of the community, as did many other dogs owners we saw during our week there. When we arrived home from the beach near the end of our vacation week, there was a plastic fence (I assume marking the property line) with an sign attached to it telling us to our dogs off their yard and clear up the waste/poop AND there was a bag of dog poop on the front step of the house. We texted the number on the sign to say our dogs had never used their lawn to go to the bathroom and that we would never ever leave our dogs’ poop without cleaning it up, but he called back to continue to accuse us of letting our dogs use their lawn as a bathroom. Although we were determined to not let it ruin our vacation, it was sad to think that we had to deal with neighbors who treated us so poorly when we had been very respectful of their property.