This was a cute little house with just about the best location on Folly if you don't want to drive anywhere. The public beach access is practically across the street and the restaurants, shops, grocery, and liquor store are all within a 5 minute walk. What more do you need while at the beach. Location alone, I would give this house 5 stars.
However, when we arrived, the house was stuffy, the dishwasher and coffee maker didn't work and there were multiple light bulbs burned out and dishes had been put away with food and drink left on them. The carpet on the stairs was filthy and there was thick dust on the carpet along all of the baseboards. With an outside temp of only 82 degrees, the A/C just couldn't keep up. By early afternoon, with the thermostat set to 72 (there is a sign warning you not to set it lower), the inside temp was 75 and very humid. I would hate to stay here in the middle of summer when it's really hot! Thank goodness for the additional A/C unit in the master bedroom upstairs that looks like it was installed earlier this year. This was the only room in the house that stayed comfortable.
Now I have to say that, when contacted about these issues, the property management team (Vacasa) went out of their way to make things right. They sent someone out to repair the dishwasher, they brought us a new coffee maker, and then had an HVAC tech come take a look at the A/C unit. In addition, Vacasa installed portable A/C units in each of the downstairs bedrooms as we were expecting the rest of our family to arrive on Wednesday. However, the living room and kitchen area still stayed uncomfortable for the remainder of our stay.
All of that being said, as much as I love the location of this home, I would not choose to stay here again unless it was in a cooler part of the year or if I learned that the A/C system had been replaced.