The owner was verbally abusive to us when we pointed out that he had construction work ongoing but never disclosed that in the listing. When my wife stated that it was hard to enjoy a vacation property when there was noisy work going on, the owner blew up and stated that construction work was a fact of life and that there were plenty of worse things in the world, such as firefighters dying while battling forest fires, wars in the rest of the world, etc.. When my wife remonstrated and said that he should provide notice of his construction work to potential renters, he escalated his blow up by saying that we were not most miserable people he ever met, and he did not want us around. He told us to get out.
When I said to him that if he was telling us we were not allowed to stay on the property, he should refund us, he
told us that there was no way we would see our money. He then repeated, shouting, "Get out, get out, I don't want you here, just get out" I responded then saying "We want our money back" His response was simply "get out, you're getting nothing".
We left. We will never us VRBO again, and we will tell any one who discusses vacation rentals with us never ever use VRBO.
In addition, the host provided a contact number that was not in service. As mentioned before, we only were able to contact him because lived in the adjacent half of the duplex.