House and amenities are really good. Little
tight going down the road with a boat trailer. House could use some minor maintenance repairs. I understand these properties stay booked almost solid. Thatâs why on the first day I myself had already starting fixing a few of the simple ones like I always do. Just handles on fridge doors falling off, etc. no big deal. We had already started talking about rebooking the place. But then it happened. Property âownerâ is unprofessional to say the least. First evening he came on the property (back deck) unannounced and shirtless making threats to have us removed from the property. Said his property was not for âevent bookingsâ. Scared and made the women and children extremely uncomfortable. Basically ruined their entire trip. They had already commented on the 8 cameras on the outside of the house(YES Eight), including back deck and swim platform. Heck, itâs a lake house. Who wants to be watched all day while wearing a swimsuit. Said cameras were not in the property description and quite frankly invade your privacy, which directly violates VRBOs policy on âsecurityâ cameras. Anyway, We had 3 couples(6 adults) and our young kids, two, three, eight, and nine. Not sure if it was a glitch in the app or just all the back and forth trying to book/search for properties but the number of kids was left off the reservation.10 people 4 bedroom house, queen bunk in 1 room. 3800 sq ft, plenty of room for 3 small families. Never thought over capacity was a concern, never looked. Quickly moved to front yard with owner to talk. He made a few snide remarks about bending rules and coming after us if we damaged his house. Then his mother, who I understand actually owns the house, exited the car to talk to me and apologized. She was so nice. She said everything was fine and she definitely wasnât putting anyone out on the street, especially children. The next day, without notice, we had an extra $200 charge from Vrbo. What were we going to do? We had travelled, moved in, and couldnât find anywhere else to go. We obviously werenât comfortable communicating with the owner at this point and 3 times we waited on hold with Vrbo for almost an hour each time to try to communicate the issues. We finally gave up. It was ruining our already short vacation. We decided to just make the best of the trip. Aggravated even having to type this review because it couldâve been such a great trip. I hope everyone learns from this!