This home in Sedona Arizona is located wonderfully and was generally clean. However, the comments about it being so up-to-date etc. surprised us. It felt like it was average, showing its age and has not been updated considering the price. As compared to a house 1 block away for the same price (our friends stayed there while we vacationed together) was immaculate and very updated. It worked, we had fun but were not wowed by the state of the house.
During our say we were confronted with an ant infestation. Every morning and evening we would find a line of ants searching out any food crumbs or pantry food. If you followed the line you would find hundreds or thousands of ants getting into our cereal boxes, counter tops or trash can. We are very clean people and had to be extra diligent to try to mitigate the issue – to no avail. No matter what, the counter, cabinets or trash can were moving at any given time.
The problem is bad.
The owner of the property was very responsive, kind and understanding. We had many conversations with him regarding the ants and he even drove up himself from Prescott to help try to solve the problem. Unfortunately, he does not want to hurt the ants… we wanted us to collect them and place them outside. While I do not like killing things etc., an infestation is a different thing. He has the right to not want to professionally deal with them but then should remove the listing from VRBO until its solved. Sounds harsh but we paid a lot of money and he made an effort by giving us a nominal sum of money back — much less than 10% for reference.
We were very surprised to go back and not see any reviews stating any problems?
I do not find pleasure in writing this review. The owner is great and very nice. Considering the above, we cannot recommend this place in good conscience. If you are interested in the house reach to the owner and talk about it first.