This stay was a disappointment and a hassle from the beginning. The 2 stars are for location and the building itself. The low rating overall is due to poor upkeep, lack of cleanliness, and owner's lack of willingness to compromise.

When we arrived, we learned that Andy was away for several weeks. He had not mentioned to us that he wouldn't be there. Two friends were housesitting for him. One of them pointed us to our cabin. He didn't give us any explanation as to how anything worked, and didn't indicate where we could find him if we needed anything.

Shortly after we arrived the sun set. There was one dim, flickering fluorescent bulb to light the kitchen area. We could barely see as we tried to cook our dinner. We discovered that the small stove was hooked to a propane tank with a kinked hose, and that if you unkinked the hose propane leaked out. The ignitor on the stove didn't work. We looked around and found a cigarette lighter, which also didn't work, and a soggy box of matches. Luckily we had a waterproof box of matches with us. I took a cup down from the shelf to get a drink of water, and discovered that the cup was caked with dirt inside and out. I sat in a rocking chair and fell through it, bruising my tailbone. Mice in the cupboards ate our food every night. The compost was an open bucket that smelled in the heat. All of the dishes are worn plastic. The few pots and pans are super scratched. There are not sufficient cooking implements, and no food storage containers to organize the chest freezer being used as a refrigerator.

The VRBO listing advertises a BBQ, so in the morning we found the housesitters and asked them where it was. They wheeled over a rusty old BBQ literally falling apart (one leg falling off bc of a rusted screw). They said we would have to use the propane tank from the stove to use the BBQ, which makes no sense because we would have had to unkink the leaky hose to do so.

This was just the beginning of the hassles we experienced. Not enough characters to list them all. We were prepaid for 2 weeks. On day 2 we reached out to Andy and politely explained that the property was not quite what we expected, and that we would prefer to spend our vacation elsewhere. We suggested a compromise: that we would stay for the first week, and ask for a refund for the second. He replied but never acknowledged our actual request. We're creative, and good campers, and we made it work. But it was certainly challenging.