Let me say first that April was very helpful and communicative and I appreciate her close contact with me. The neighborhood is not quite a neighborhood that I've ever seen. Its a mix of mostly older trailer homes and abandoned houses, which did not put me at ease. I did not feel safe leaving the house, and we had people walking through our part of the sand numerous times. We brought our dogs and this was not ideal. According to the neighbors, this is one of three properties that the owners own. This helps make sense of some of the problems we encountered on the property because they are not on site daily. The majority of the exterior wood is rotted and is dangerous for bare feet or those without stable footing. They have tried to update aspects of the property, at least cosmetically, and added newer appliances. However, many of these appliances were broken or put haphazardly into place. For example, the fridge's freezer pull bar was broken off, making it difficult to utilize, and the microwave was sitting inside an open cabinet with screws sticking out. When you used it, it moved all over the place. The grill outside was not in working order. I reached out and they had us go pick up a gas container from a convinent store, but it was still not working. April said they could come the next day to look at it, but because we surmized that the problem was likely the gas line being clogged (which I told them), we doubted it would be fixed that day either due to finding the right parts. The grill was one of the main reasons we chose this home, as we brought all of our food to cook out. The oven and stove never seemed to get hot enough, and anything set to over 350 in the oven cause smoke. It took a while for the hot water to work in both bathrooms. The house was loaded with gnats, which I understand being by the water happens, but we would find them in the microwave, which I found concerning. Additionally, the added ac units in every room were tremendously loud and the other half of each window was boarded up with plywood. In the bunk bed bedroom, the plywood was not even adhered to the window, which was extremely worrisome to us and contributed to my parents' sleepless night. I did raise this to April's attention and she said they could come fix it, but at this point we were already over the trip and just wanted to get home. Ultimately we left a day early and drove back home to grill out and celebrate my father in law's birthday properly.
