First off, Prior to my stay, I emailed the owner (through vrbo) to see if we could add a night to our booking - never got a response.
Upon arrival on our scheduled date , I thought I’d been scammed. No parking instructions, driveway to the only visible house was full of cars. Could not see VRBO property. Surrounding homes all have bars on their windows…so…theres that. Asked a couple who happened to be walking by with their dog if I was in the right place and was told to park on the grass in front of chain linked fence and to then go through the chain linked fence and around back. I was nervous to do this because there was signage regarding parking or a rear property, and it was very uninviting, to put it nicely. I rechecked my email and the only instructions were “go through chain linked fence and follow path around back”. I did NOT receive a code to get in to the “house” so I had to call the owner, and thankfully he answered. Gave me the wrong code, then the correct one. Theres about a 1 inch open gap under front entry door, so hopefully you don't mind bugs and small rodents living with you. Got inside, it was clean but nowhere near as nice looking as the pictures made it look. Within 10 minutes of being there my daughter was having trouble breathing and I was nauseaus and had a headache from an overhelming smell of smoke and what was I guess an attempt to cover it up? Immediately texted owner and said we weren't going to be able to stay. Owner assured me I was smelling an “Air fresheners”. He did offer to remove them and said it was non smoking place. Maybe I was wrong but, smoke has a very distinct smell and…whatever it was it was making us both sick. We weren't even there 15 min before we left, and owner refused even a partial refund. Then completely stopped responding. I am usually not the type to complain, or be high maintenance and the situation was obviously super inconvenient for us , but…that’s how smelly it was. We are a military family who was in Tampa to house hunt for the week. Ended up paying $200 a night for hotels (bc Taylor Swift was in town) in addition the the money we lost on the vrbo). Unfortunately, would not reccommend this place.