Our entire experience at this Lehigh Acres VRBO “pet friendly” rental was a nightmare!
Upon stepping out of our car to meet the property manager,there was a fresh large pile of dog poop! She told us the neighbors had 4 dogs, one a pit bull, one a Great Dane. Actually, they had 5 dogs who were in the habit of using our rental’s yard on all sides of home to do their pooping!! All this poop was not usually picked up. Our small dog was “charge at”through the cage by the Great Dane.
Only one dog was ever leashed by its owner, she said the others dogs owners weren’t as respondible as she was.The dog situation was constantly horrible!!
The previous renters wrote in the guestbook they were leaving early; they had a dog.
6 young adults lived next door, 50 feet from our front door, with their 5 dogs. The police visited them several times during our stay.
The pool was unusable; their pool guy said their pool system had leaks in 3 parts of the pool system!
The house itself was okay, minor issues with kitchen lighting electricity that were address during our stay. But between the loud racing cars down our street at nights and the police visiting our next door neighbors, it was impossible to relax let along take our dog for a walk. It made us feel like we were in prison, not daring to step out of the house. Then nightly in the local news Lehigh Acres crimes were reported, and man hunts!
The sad thing is the month before we drove down, I contacted the property manager through VRBO messaging and she assured me the area of our rental was in a fine part of Lehigh Acres. Sadly, we found this was untrue.
We told the property manager we did not feel safe before we had even entered the house. She said the area was just fine, but, she did say she would look for another rental with an enclosed yard as she managed 12 houses; but, she never mentioned our request for a better, safer place again. I called VRBO about the situation immediately; they said unless we could say we were in actual danger nothing could be done for us.
The property manager was pleasant but we felt she was over whelmed with her responsibilities. During COVID she said the German owners of her properties had not been coming to America, so she had to handle everything. We left a few days early when we were able to secure another house.
We would strongly say unless the owner enclosed his property with a fence he should not be allowed to list the house as “a pet friendly VRBO rental”.