The good, the bad and the ugly describes this property to a tee.
First of all we enjoyed out stay as Lake Marion offers a wonderful vacation experience.
This property has a sandy beach perfect for swimming and fishing.
However, you dont realize the condition of some things until you arrive and receive the first email from the owner. Prepare yourself for a litany of hand written notes of do's and don'ts posted everywhere while you are there.
When you arrive you will have to figure the "code of breakers" in the electrical panel. It's a combination of what to cut on first and what to cut off last so as not to damage electrical equipment and if you get it wrong be prepared to pay for damages. If you are not comfortable with controlling breaker switches in a live electrical panel you may be at a loss and need to contact the neighbor for help.
One of the components includes the dock, which is in great disrepair missing main structure framing and badly damaged and improper wiring unsafe for use at all.
We had three kids and a baby with us and although we were careful to clean, made an error by not taking our final bag of trash out with us, our mistake, which included a diaper and cigarette butts from our outside clean. For this the owner, by all rights, kept the deposit. I don't blame them for that at all. We missed some of the mess the kids made upstairs as well.
There is no use of the fire place allowed while you are here, another item not listed in the original post but there are electric heaters throughout that worked well once you figure our the "breaker combination".
As advertised, no wifi and the TV is outdated and only plays DVDs.
Also the owner blamed us for rearranging furniture asking "Who does that?" We only moved two chairs of furniture, so we could all watch a movie, which includes a living room full of wicker pieces and lawn chairs so unless the tenants who left the same day we arrived rearranged the furniture layout I'm not sure what the problem was.
It's rustic and the main room was large and allowed us to enjoy the space. The interior is covered with cobwebs and the exterior is in need of a power wash covered in years of dirt dobber nests. Overall a clean property otherwise.
Overall not a bad property, just needs some repair and be prepared for some things that are not listed in the ad. The owner is a little picky for what they have but I definitely understand some of the frustration from our errors