Pool Home on Deep Canal Off Boot Key Harbor, Double Lot

We arrived for the long Memorial Day weekend, coming down from Daytona. The wind didn't always cooperate but we were still able to get offshore and catch a few mahi! My wife liked the sailboats in Boot Key Harbor, and there are a few restaurants to pull up to on the boat. Easy to get gas, ice, and bait on the way out.

This house is what the Keys is supposed to be. Palm trees, a pool, beach style chairs to relax in after fishing. If you are looking for much more than that, the Keys probably isn't for you!

We stayed at this house the beginning of 2016. The location of the house was great, however it’s near the hospital & the helicopter flies in often.

We arrived late & it was dark. We unloaded & went to bed. In the morning light we found the house was extremely dirty – filthy! Everything was dirty, the walls, floors, corners, furniture, rugs, blinds, cabinets, drawers – everything! The garage had been made into a master bedroom long ago. The washer & dryer area (which was left garage like) made into a bathroom. This bathroom was so dirty. The tiled floor was yucky in corners & behind toilet. Dust from dryer was on walls & in bedroom. Shower so small a normal person won’t fit. Bedroom carpet was beyond dirty with a huge wet stain. I never walked barefoot on this carpet. I have pictures.

The other 2 bedrooms share a bathroom. This bathroom had old tile and fixtures was retro cute, however the bathtub had lime deposits in need of scrubbing. Bathmat was a horrible & moldy. We soon learned the water heater wasn't working & a bedroom overhead fan didn’t work. They came to fix & replace - but didn’t finish & left fan parts lying around for the remainder of our stay.

This house could be really cute, we love older homes. The gravel yard is over grown with what the owner said was wild flowers, really?? They may be, but to us its laziness to let them take over. The back is overgrown with palms trees and fallen palms & coconuts. Don’t sit under the palms trees!!

The pictures in this add are old!! The side of the car port has rusty paint cans, trash, and bags of old mulch & crap, plus “wild flowers” and vines growing. The outside is just as dirty as the inside.

To be fair owner did offer to have the lady clean again. By this time we had our stuff unloaded & since they hadn’t come back to fix the fan we declined. I showed the owner the master bathroom/bedroom, the grim, dust & dead bugs on the blinds, dirty floors & the carpet - she showed little to no concern.

I DO NOT recommend this house until you read the entire house has been painted in/outside, gashes in the walls repaired; house thoroughly cleaned (including furniture), carpet and broken easy chair replaced. Kitchen drawers cleaned & scrubbed. On the good side - Refrig was clean & TV was nice. The iguana that lives in the trees was fun to watch, he likes cantaloupe & grapes.

I hope the fan in the bedroom got fixed. I'm not betting on it.

We came to this house the first week of summer vacation. We chose it because of the pool and width of the lot, and we were not disappointed. We had stayed in a duplex last summer, and we felt like we were on top of our neighbors. This home has a fenced yard and palm trees for privacy. The yard is big enough for the kids to run around in. My sons loved looking for coconuts.

The home is clean and has everything we could want. The HD TV in the living room is a nice touch.

We also rented one of the owner's boats, a 20' Dusky. Great boat that was waiting in the water when we arrived. You can't beat that.

We couldn't have asked for much more. We arrived in September and received the fall rates. There are still plenty of fish and lobster around, and all the tourists have gone home! We felt like we had all of Marathon to ourselves.

If you want room service and a hoity toity atmosphere, go to Hawk's Cay or Tranquility Bay. If you want a place to relax in PRIVACY, with your own pool, own dock, and an owner who can give you tips on where to find fish and lobster, this is your place!

1st, ask yourself why there are no reviews since 2011?? Then wave your big red flag and look for another place! We still have the emails of correspondence with the owner to show the poor communication. Some of our issues were…… broken bed in one of the bedrooms, lights didn't work on back porch and it was pitch black at night so no outside sitting by the dock or pool. Both of these things were brought to her attention the first few days of our stay and were not fixed for us.(we have the email she sent back if you'd like to see it) (she said it was probably a breaker and will look at it when we leave…..the breaker is locked up so we couldn't check it ourselves) Grill grates were so rusty that we couldn't use the grill.(we have a pic of it) We were told a week after we got back that she was taking $150 out of our account to fix a piece of trim we pulled down with our boat trailer AND because the figures in the signed contract weren't figured right. The repair was a few screws to put the trim back up. ($25 on the highest end!) So she refigured the contract with different figures (which we still didn't get a copy of) and took the $150. At this point we cut our losses, told her to keep it and choose not to even correspond with her anymore about it. She answers emails with 1 liners and doesn't fully explain anything. We stay in Key Colony Beach every year and wanted to try a place that had a closer pool for my sick wife to get to easier. I'd rather carry her on my back to the pool at KCB than to put her thru the kind of service we got here. We have NEVER left a negative review before in all the years we have been to the keys but felt the public should know the truth because what they did is WRONG. I don't know if the owners can delete these reviews which makes you wonder why there are no reviews since 2011. Run away now……