While the owner was very friendly, it appears, through our interaction and my short notice booking of the property, it was definitely not as seemingly clean as in the pictures. At 11 pm, I tried to find the house with my Aunt. There are a few houses that resemble the rental property very closely and as I was struggling to find the house, one of the neighbors came out and was watching our every move. The street was dark and the area kind of sketchy, so it was a little uncomfortable. Eventually he yelled that we were on someone's private property, so I asked about the address of the rental. He told me it was a little further down the dark street.
With no lights on, I got out with my flashlight and attempted to find the lock box. I didn't have instructions as to where it would be, so I was poking around for a bit (looking suspicious I'm sure). I headed up the stairs to the deck in order to try the doors up there. After traversing animal poop and one or two slightly broken steps, I tried the first door which appeared to be punched through. No lockbox. Tried the second door, which had a big deadbolt on it and still no lockbox. Finally, I found the lockbox on the third door and opened the door to be greeted with extremely hot, moldy smelling air. It was 93 degrees in the house because the AC had been left off. The second thing that greeted me were wasps that were flying around inside. There were some moths too, but the wasps really got to me. I turned on some lights and took note of the extremely gross, outdated carpet with holes burnt into it. Looked in the refrigerator to find some old spills and someone else's condiments from who knows when. The floorboard was warped and it was so hot and moldy smelling in there, we definitely did not feel comfortable sleeping there. After surveying the rest of the main floor, we decided that wasps, moldy air and 93 degrees was a little too much for us, so we turned around and headed back to The Cabins at Stockton Lake, where I woke my family from their sleep at 12:30 a.m. to let me in.
I did not stay at the property for the remainder of the weekend. I'm sure that for some men on a fishing trip, it would be fine. However, I think that in order to market this property to a wider spectrum of renters, there needs to be some serious updating and cleaning done. Wasps are not fun to sleep with. I won't be asking for my money back because I would say it is not inhabitable, but I definitely would not recommend.