Pine Lake Waterfront Haus mit eigenem Dock

The conditions are unsanitary. It’s beautiful but the owner knowingly rented out the home without properly functioning bathrooms.

Several of the rooms are unfurnished. Not ideal, but I wasn’t going to let it bother me. The owner is so cheap he split a single sheet set between two beds - the fitted sheet on the upstairs queen bed and the top sheet on the downstairs king bed. Neither is large enough to fit the mattress so they’re constantly bunching up during the night. All of the towels were crunchy. Folded & apparently ready to use, but so crunchy they felt filthy. I had to wash them.

The ONLY reason I rented this house is so my family could run down to the dock and jump in to swim multiple times a day. The beach is 2inch thick mud. The water is <2ft deep and the mud is >1ft deep at the end of the dock. We decide we’ll have to drive several miles to the park to be able to go swimming. I only live 30 minutes from this park. If I had wanted to drive to a park every day to go swimming I would have saved myself the money and done just that. Did I complain? No.

The last straw was the toilets. All 3 toilets have notes left by the owner instructing us not to flush toilet paper. This is a multi-million-dollar home in the tech mecca that is Seattle/Bellevue, not a 3rd world country. It creates smelly, disgusting, unsanitary conditions. But we followed the instructions and in less than 24 hours, 2 of the 3 toilets were clogged. Without toilet paper! You’d think the owner would provide plungers in each bathroom. Nope. We had to tote the nasty wet plunger between rooms, trying to clear toilets that were so full of water they were almost overflowing, splashing everywhere. You’d think there’d be cleaning supplies we could use to clean up the mess. Nope. I had to go buy my own Clorox wipes.

I call to file a complaint asking to cancel and get a refund. While we’re at the park the owner leaves a pipe snake on the front porch. No note. Like we’re hired plumbers, not paying customers. It didn’t work and made a huge mess. Did I mention that the downstairs bathroom is carpeted? Gross.

Eventually the owner shows up making excuses. We ask him if there’s a problem with the septic system causing the toilet issues. He says no, it’s on a sewer system. So there’s simply no excuse. And on the way out? He shows us how to use his vacuum cleaner even though we were charged a cleaning fee.

He ignored further attempts to resolve the issue so I filed a chargeback with VISA.