I am sorry to have to give a bad review. This is a first, but I depend on the reviews of others when making my rental decisions and I am grateful for words of warning from fellow vacationers. My three friends and I rented this house Aug 30-Sep 4, 2016 and brought our three dogs along, for our annual beach vacation. The house is well decorated and appointed, but sadly neglected, dirty and smelly. The owner has been pocketing the $150 a head pet fees ($450 in our case), not cleaning the urine-soaked carpeting between renters, and told us, when we contacted her on arrival, that it was our bad luck to have rented at the end of the season, prior to her annual carpet cleaning. The fridge and freezer were full of half-eaten food, the kitchen trash can was wet, rugs were draped over the deck railings, dust bunnies and cobwebs were liberally distributed throughout the house. The mattresses and pillows are ancient, stained and uncomfortable. The dishwasher is broken. It needs to be re-anchored to the counter, so the door will latch. Rather than repair it, the owner repeatedly has each renter call the handy man to wrestle it back into place, so it will latch. There is a large, floor model air conditioner in the loft which failed to cool the space, takes up the entire bathroom, and leaked soaking the carpet and sending water dripping through the downstairs bathroom.On day four, it caused the power to short out with a loud popping sound and a puff of smoke that scared us half to death. The bulbs,15-20 feet up in the loft ceilings are burnt out. We were told to feel free to change them ourselves. The DVD was inoperable due to a lost remote and lost instructions. The hot tub was cleaned a day or two after we arrived. Thankfully, no one had been inclined to use it. The discarded tampon the dog found in the back yard was another unwelcome surprise. We spent our vacation waiting for the handyman four times and listening to the owner complain about the previous renters. The problems we contacted her about were no surprise to the owner. She knew about most of the problems prior to our arrival. Stay away! There are plenty of lovely rental properties available.This isn’t one of them.