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MISREPRSENTATION OF PROPERTY
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| Link ID |
186
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| Title |
MISREPRSENTATION OF PROPERTY |
| Web Address |
http://bythesearentals.com |
| Complaint |
My wife & I had rented a beach house in Fort Myers Beach, FL for the month of Sept. I spoke to BytheSeaRentals, Karen Nichols, and agreed to rent a beach house by the canal. She assured me that the house had been professionally cleaned, with linens, dishes, pots & pans etc. She also told me the 2 TV’s were cable ready and had DSL connection for my computer. We also had access to a washer/dryer. She said the house was in a great location on a canal.
We arrived at the beach house and found it to be very dirty and unsafe, certainly not professionally cleaned. In fact, there were cobwebs in the corners with dead bugs caught in them. All the windows and glass doors were very dirty. The kind of dirt that has been there for a while. The electrical outlets came out of the wall when a plug was pulled. The livingroom furniture was dirty. We had to soak & wash the dishes and cooking utensils in hot, soapy water over night to get them clean. We had to sweep and wash the kitchen floor. The TV’s weren’t hooked up and we attached the cable, they still didn’t work. We complained to her and she sent her handyman over to fix them, he made several attempts to program the remote, but it still didn’t work. I suggested that he should put new batteries in the remote. He didn’t have any so I offered mine and then the TV went on! The remote didn’t turn the TV on or off - we had to do that by hand.
The stove (which I tried to clean) was so dirty with old food & grease that when we tried to cook the smoke detector went off. The next morning I tried to make some toast, again the smoke detector went off. I called her and she said that she would send her handyman. He came over and raked leaves, then left. The bedroom door that led outside had a large space between the door and the floor and lots of gecko’s had “Carte Blanch” into the unit. The house was hard to keep cool because of the space. I used a towel to block the opening. The canal couldn’t be seen from the unit, you had to walk around the littered property, go by someone else’s unit (very uncomfortable) to get to the canal. The so called patio & furniture was located on someone else’s area and not usable because of dirt. The grass & weeds were so overgrown & dirty it was hard to safely walk to the canal. Yikes!! It was the end of the canal, there was sludge caked all around it, old tires, etc. In general the house was filthy dirty not to mention the large dead bug in the bathroom. The shower was filthy as was the bed. We did have clean linens - so wrinkled we did not to use them. We found it to be to intolerable a place to live. I called her and told her we had to leave. I informed her again of all the problems and asked her for a portion of our $1,000. rent back. I feel that she grossly misrepresented the property. It was not habitable. I sent her the money (1,199.00) in good faith and did not get what I expected.
All she returned to me was the $250.00 security deposit/cleaning fee in two separate payments which I had to ask for via e-mail several times.
Beware of these rentals from Karen Nichols, By the sea Rentals, Ft. Myers, FL |
| Geographic Category |
United States > Florida |
| Keywords |
BytheseaRentals Karen Nichols Beach vacation rentals misrepresented |
| Date |
Nov 21, 2009 |
| Reported By |
William & Audrey Perry |
| Email |
send email to William & Audrey Perry
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