Testimonies: Rental home vacation disasters 9 Articles

by Mary Dorice Wills

The moment we pulled into the driveway of our "Rustic Vacation Home", my husband, 13-year-old son and 14-year-old niece said in unison "We are NOT staying here!" The home looked exactly like the house from "Psycho"; I expe...read more

by Denyce Alexander

When making lodging arrangements for our parents to accommodate them for our destination wedding, we believed we were very thorough. We visited the area several times, requested recommendations from our wedding planner an...read more

by Angela La Fon

After seven hours we had arrived at our home away from home for the next seven days. With eager anticipation, I gently slid back the screen door and was knocked to the deck floor as it came off the track and fell on top...read more

by Jennifer Eblin

It started with the smell; not quite rotten meat, but something that smelled mysteriously like rotten meat. Hearing the old "body under the bed" urban legend story a few too many times, I was a little worried. Having stuff...read more

by Pat Merewether

We've had mostly good experiences when renting vacation homes. But I guess everyone has to have at least one stinker experience. Our daughter and her family, husband, four kids, two dogs, have a pop-up camper. They pref...read more

by I. B. Duke

"Patience is a virtue". "Persistence pays off". "Believe nothing you hear and only half of what your see". These are all wise sayings and words to be heeded when shopping online for vacation rentals. Trust me. I have e...read more

by Adri Snyman

I used to work for an estate agency that did both normal rentals as well as vacation home rentals, both via the internet and word of mouth advertising. So you can safely say that I have heard holiday home horror stories fr...read more

by Daniel Ciavardini

As we wound our way through the rolling Green Mountains of Vermont our anticipation grew with each passing mile. Our close friends were just behind us occasionally waving at us as they would pass us on the road. Normall...read more

by Megan Butler

I remember it like it was yesterday. We had just decides that we all where going to take a trip down to Disney Land in Florida for a week, so we called around and rented out a huge condo just about 7 miles away from...read more