I was there during a change in management, I'm going to try to separate our experience there from what it should be moving forward.
The pictures don't do this property justice, it is much larger and prettier than it looks in the ad.
This place is at least an hour drive from anything (30 minutes to a Walmart for groceries), So expect to spend at minimum 2 hours a day driving. It is brutally tiring if you have even a half full itinerary for Florida/ Orlando. Beaches are a minimum 4 hours driving and we were once in the car for 6 hours just going to Orlando but got stuck in traffic.
In terms of the house itself..
The beds all have hard mattresses. This may be a bonus for you, but if you have even one person who has a hard time sleeping on a hard mattress, it's going to be a negative.
All the beds and pillows have plastic coverings under them, making them loud and slippery. Sleeping isn't really affected unless someone is a light sleeper of which the noise may wake them up.
There are two inconvenient (likely Covid related) policies in place. 1) previous tenants cannot leave behind condiments in the fridge, meaning we arrived to a completely empty fridge. This may be a positive, but for us, it meant we had to buy things like mustard, ketchup etc that weren't even half empty when we left. The second is that people cannot leave behind pool toys and the like. So the selection is very poor. Hopefully these two policies can be lifted, as the inconvenience of an additional $30 for most people outweighs the inconvenience of tossing everything in the fridge in the garbage if they so choose.
When we were there, they did have a baby floater, arm floaties and 2 children's life vests.
There were no functioning pool accessories for adults available aside from a beach ball.
One of the rooms is a repurposed garage (the queen bed) and the room runs hot in the summer (June) because the AC does not appear to cool the room well. Meaning a door needs to be left open at all times for a little airflow.
The neighbors are wonderful and the keep the backyard mowed so you can walk down next to the lake and enjoy it if you look hard, you can find remnants of the old golf course the community was built on. Never seen any gators near the house but we did at a local bar called "Cherry Pocket" (5 minute drive) which you can visit, walk along the boat docks and see lots of them. They also sell gator nuggets.
Lastly, communication with the owner was excellent.
4/5
