The Good: The house is in an excellent location - the beach access is just a short walk away. The house is freshly painted and the carpet seemed relatively new. The kitchen is well equipped with plates and serving items. The hot tub is in a covered location, so it's great for rainy days.

The Bad: I've been renting vacation homes in OBX for years. It's the beach, and I expect there to be bugs, spiders, and ants. Unfortunately, this house was infested with them during our stay... Throughout our stay, there were millipedes everywhere inside the house - and you could sweep them up, but within a couple of hours, they were back. They seemed to be mostly confined to the entry ways, but we found them in the bedrooms (including in our bed), and the bathrooms. There are also a lot of spiders outside the home - you couldn't walk on the decks our out a door without walking into a spider dangling from above. I eventually went outside with a broom and swept the underside of all the decking, but not until it reached a point where my young daughter was too freaked out to go outside. There were also ants, to a lesser extent - perhaps the 12-15 ant baits on the kitchen counters are working...

Next problem - the housekeeping. When we arrived, despite the fact that this property is listed as "No Pets" the house was full of dog hair - tufts of dog hair on the rugs, all over the couches, and on the comforters in some of the bedrooms. Moreover, there were dog hair "dust bunnies" and crumbs around the entire kitchen floor under the cabinet toe kicks, and the kitchen rug was complete covered with dog hair. Clearly, the house hadn't been vacuumed or swept after the previous tenants. There's no way anyone could have not seen it. I don't blame the owners for this, as they have no control over what the tenants do. When I reported it to the property manager, they offered to send someone out from housekeeping to clean it up, but I declined as I had already done the vacuuming myself, and really wasn't interested in being trapped in home for the next few hours waiting for the housekeepers to finish, as we had already unpacked all our things and were ready to hit the beach.