When we rented out vacation home for the fall I was skeptical about the whole thing from the start.
The paperwork said that we would need to bring our own bedding, food, and a couple of extension cords because there weren’t enough outlets in the unit.
I wasn’t sure that any place that didn’t have the wiring up to code was a place that I wanted to stay for two whole weeks. My family said that they thought it would be fine so I went along with the plans. We arrived in the middle of the day and my fears were realized quickly. Not only was the electric situation awful but we discovered that the only heat source was an old wood burning stove in the corner of the main room. It was well into the month of October and the nighttime temps were dropping into the 40’s. There was no way that this would keep us warm all night unless we took turns waking up to put wood on the fire. I was so mad! We hadn’t thought to ask about what type of heat the place had, and with only a couple of outlets, we couldn’t even plug in space heaters in the bedrooms. You can’t use and extension cord for those as it is a fire hazard. We had booked the place for two weeks and all I could think of was the fact that we would be miserable the whole time. The first few nights we suffered through with the fire in the stove but after that I called around to get prices on hotels. I also called the owner of the property to tell them that we would be requesting a full refund based on false advertising.