PROS:
- The house is beautiful and the entertaining areas are spacious
- The kitchen is very well equipped. One of the best I’ve encountered from a rental.
• The kids loved the foosball table!
- Location is great.
- The pool is beautiful.
- The outdoor space / fire pit and grill area at the house was awesome.
- The golf cart was great.
CONS:
- The floors in the house were so dirty - not visibly, but after just a few minutes of walking around barefoot all our feet were black. I even cleaned the downstairs and mopped daily, but it didn’t help.
- The parking situation is terrible if you have more than one car. In order to get the golf cart in/out of the garage, you had to move all the cars out of the driveway. It was a constant game of moving cars. We received “friendly” warning citation from the HOA for being 1/2 a tire off the driveway when we tried to adjust the cars to get the golf cart past. We were told there are cameras watching the property to report any non-adherence.
- No overflow/ temporary parking. Every other neighborhood we have stayed in has had a notched out parking are off the street for daytime needs to move cars around as needed, but not this one. There are sandy notched out areas, but you will also get a warning from the HOA if you park there. There needs to be a place where you can temporarily park to allow for families coming and going during the day and jockeying of the cars to get the golf cart in / out.
• Upon arriving to the house, the outdoor trash was overflowing. I noticed there was a diaper and some other trash that spilled over. Given the trash pick ups are Monday and Thursday, I assumed that would work itself out within a few days. On Thursday night our friends saw a raccoon in the outdoor trash. On Friday, I was returning from lunch when the neighbor across the street, who tells me he’s on the HOA, confronts me about making sure the trash was picked up and he would be letting the owner know - as if to be insinuating a threat with some sort of consequence? I had no idea what he was talking about at the time, but later my husband said the HOA had sent the management company over to address the “trash situation”.
TL;DR - Sadly, the constant big brother of the HOA was a damper on what otherwise was a very enjoyable home and location. Not only will we not be returning to this property, we are strongly considering giving up our 6 year annual 30A trip and looking for a new annual beach destination as well.