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We rented this property because we were going to adopt a newborn baby. The woman who rented it to us sells her properties as “meditative retreats”. After our baby was born and we were at the house, I was obviously awake a lot in the middle of the night. One night I thought I saw a baby cockroach, but thought “not in …..”. The next night, I went to open the dishwasher and saw a huge cockroach and knew that we were staying at a cockroach infested house.
We immediately called the owner to let her know that we were leaving because we have a newborn and can’t be around cockroaches. She told us that she was too busy with trick or treaters to talk and would call us back. She never did. We packed up all of our stuff with a newborn and left that night. We had paid her a substantial amount of money for that night and the next 7 nights.
My husband called her the next day and she was horribly abusive. She told him, to paraphrase, “what are you so broke that you can’t wait for (the amount of money we had paid)” and then said (paraphrasing) that one cockroach is not a big deal and then, the real wonderful comment was “I’m not your (swear beginning with f) mother”….right before she hung up on him.
Fast-forward 10 days of the owner refusing to respond to our emails and we get a check for only our security deposit in the mail. We had given her a substantial sum for the upcoming week of rent and she basically told us by letter (through her husband or associate) that she’s keeping our money even though we had to vacate due to cockroaches. So, she is keeping our money for the period when we were not staying there and when we had to stay in a hotel and claiming we should have allowed her to fix the problem.
BUYER BEWARE!! DO NOT stay at any of her properties. She will email you back right away when she wants your money but will then tell you that a property with cockroaches is habitable and that you should stay while the cockroaches are dealt with, even if you have kids. I would never ever, ever, ever stay at any of her properties again.
THE VRBO number is 89917 and the vacation rentals number is 14048. She has properties in Yosemite and Hawaii also.
Date Added: Nov 22, 2010
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