My friends and I normally rent houses on Fire Island, but decided to try Montauk this year. Rick's house was one of the few that could actually accomodate 10 adults comfortably for the dates that we chose, so it was a fairly straight forward decision. We are so glad that we stayed at this house!
The house is spacious, with clean, comfortable bedrooms for everyone. Bathrooms were impeccable. The house has a great living area, with a working fireplace (which we used since it was pouring rain and freezing the first day we were there), and a sitting hammock right in the living room! The TV has cable, which was awesome, since we were housebound for the first day.
The house is a 5 min walk to the beach, which was absolutely beautiful. The shed out back has all the chairs and umbrellas that we needed, and there were plenty of beach towels in the house. There are even a couple of bikes, which some of us used to take a nice leisurely ride around Ditch Plains.
Rick and his housekeeper were responsive, and extremely helpful. Rick provided us with a map of his recommended places, and every place we tried was great. My one critique was that having never used vrbo before, I was nervous paying the full fee and not hearing anything for weeks. Once we were a week away from our check-in date though, Rick and his housekeeper became very communicative. I guess that is the usual process with online rentals, but I would have felt a lot more at ease if someone had mentioned that to me at the time of booking. I just took heart in all the positive reviews, and it worked out perfectly.
I would highly recommend this house, and hopefully will be coming back again next year. Thanks Rick!