Thank you Laura for this amazing review and local area suggestions. It was a pleasure being your Host.

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Thanks so much for the positive review. That's a great suggestion for bluetooth speakers for the pool area. We will make it happen soon! It was a pleasure being your Host!

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Thank you so much for the positive review! It was a pleasure being your Host and we would love to Host you again!

Thank you for your positive review and kind words. It was a pleasure being your Host.

Thank you for your positive review and kind words. It was a pleasure being your Host.

Thank you for your positive review and kind words. It was a pleasure being your Host.

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Thank you! It was a pleasure being your Host.

Thank you! It was a pleasure being your Host.

As a Premier Host we are thrilled to share our beautiful vacation home with others so that they can have a 5-star vacation experience and create everlasting memories. Unfortunately, we do not always receive the same 5-Star experience from our Guests. When we received this Guest’s instant booking, we confirmed the reservation and immediately sent out the Agreement and Pet Addendum to read, complete, initial and sign. Guests often refer to the Agreement as “the Rules.” The Agreement is designed to establish expectations, provide information and guidelines on how to care for our home. We ask all our Guests to treat our Home with the same love and care as they would treat their own home. A copy of our Agreement and Pet Addendum is available by request before choosing to commit to an instant booking. Our home is self-managed by us with smart home technology such as electronic door locks, NEST A/C thermostat, and ADT security with audio and non-audio EXTERIOR security cameras. All cameras are disclosed in our VRBO description, they are disclosed within the Agreement that is initialed and signed by our Guest, and there are signs posted at each camera location. There are no INTERIOR cameras. There are no hidden cameras. There are no camera locations not disclosed. We do have helpful tips, reminders, labels, and signs to provide information about the house such as identifying light switches, Wi-Fi password, trash and recycling days, and friendly reminders for “No Smoking on the Property” and “Clean the BBQ grill after using” to avoid Agreement violation fees and/or additional cleaning fees. Our beautiful swimming pool and backyard oasis has various features; thus, there is a set schedule. The main pool pump, filter, pool heater (if applicable) and bubbler fountain run from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM. The Waterfalls run from 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The pool LED lights run from 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM. And the lanai lights are available to turn on at the remote from dusk to dawn. We cannot have our Guests turn on/off our pool features at will, or run them 24-hrs a day, as it will interfere with the pool chemistry and pool filtration system. As written in the Agreement, our Guests are not to touch or change our pool equipment settings. Nonetheless, this Guest ignored the Agreement and attempted to turn on our waterfalls after hours. This Guest turned the pool LED lights on after hours, over-riding the automated schedule, and then failed to turn them off. This Guest did not observe the neighborhood’s quiet time hours of 10:00 PM – 7:00 AM. We allowed this Guest to have a Pet on the property with a paid Pet fee and signed Pet Addendum. The Guest had a small Labrador Retriever and confirmed he was potty-trained. The Guest agreed to take full responsibility for their pet, including damage and additional cleaning. The Guest agreed to clean up urine and feces accidents from inside the home and pick up all yard waste daily. Still, after checking out, there was a substantial amount of dog urine inside the home, in a common area, drying up with dog hairs stuck on the travertine tile. An indication that the urine was left there for several days. There were numerous patches of dead grass in the backyard where their Pet had urinated. And there was dog waste left in the backyard. Nonetheless, this Guest also ignored the signed Pet Addendum. We did not charge the Guest for the Agreement violation fees. We did not charge the Guest for the Pet Addendum violation fees. We did not charge the Guest for the damage to the grass. But, we did charge the Guest for the additional cleaning costs to remove and sanitize the dog urine from inside the home and to remove the dog feces from the backyard. The Guest was upset about the $50.00 charge to their Security Deposit that He threatened to leave a negative review if the charge was not reversed. We hope our next Guest will treat our home with love and be honest about their review and experience at the PARKER BLISS HOUSE.

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Thank you Sandy and Mike. It was a pleasure being your Host.

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Thank you! It was a pleasure being your Host.

As a Premier Host, we learn a lot from our Guests, and it is from our Guests, we discovered we had to create a Lease Agreement and Household Guidelines, a.k.a “the Rules”, to establish common sense expectations in order for Guests to respect our home, our property, our neighborhood and our next VRBO Guests. We take pride in sharing our home, that we love, with others, and we want all our future Guests to enjoy a 5-star experience. After making an instant booking, we confirmed this Guest’s reservation and requested her to read, initial all pages, sign, and return the Lease Agreement and Household Guidelines; showing her agreement and understanding of set expectations, and to ask us questions. We have 4 exterior, non-audio, motion-activated, ADT security cameras, which is disclosed in VRBO’s description and within the Household Guidelines. Periodically we check the ADT video clips to ensure everything is running smoothly and to trouble-shoot any problems that may occur. We do not monitor ADT Security cameras 24/7 as evident by the below events. From the above renter’s 3-Night stay, we noticed on the morning of the 3rd day, from the ADT video clips captured, that the pool LED lights were left on overnight and were still on. We sent a message to her in the morning requesting the pool LED lights to be turned off and to refer to the Household Guidelines, where it explains that the two pool LED lights are very expensive to replace and if left on overnight / during the day that we would have to charge her. There is also a sign posted by the LED lights, as a friendly reminder, to turn them off after night swimming. We didn’t receive a response back until the afternoon, resulting in the pool LED lights being left on for 2 nights and 1 day. This one request troubled her greatly that she responded that we have too many rules for her to follow. I then suggested we could cancel her VRBO reservation for her last night if she felt there were too many rules to continue her stay. The standard cleaning fee charged on every reservation does not cover cleaning the BBQ grill. We supply the propane gas to use the grill and ask that our renters clean the grill properly after using it so it’s clean for our next Guests. Our cleaning service charges extra for this service, and if the Renter fails to clean it, this cost becomes their responsibility. We are a VRBO Premiere Host as indicated by the previous 5-Star ratings we received. Unfortunately, as this Guest indicated above in her own review, she felt because she was on vacation, that she didn’t have to follow the Lease Agreement and Household Guidelines, aka "the Rules", that she agreed to, signed and initialed.

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