Imagine booking a lake house 6 months in advance and getting a 2-day notice prior to arriving that your rental was in the middle of a landscaping project. Workers, trucks, dust everywhere including all over our boat, no grass, and an offer from the management company that they would happily reimburse us of all the rental fees if we did not want to stay or a 25% discount if we did. Nice last-minute decision to make. Of course we have friends coming in from out of town, there was no turning back but the notice was absurd. It was explained to me the company felt the 25% was more than generous which after staying the 5 days was not adequate compensation. I reached out to Doughty management again after our stay with no reply.
In addition, the neighborhood is very stuffy, renters not really welcome from the interactions we had with the locals. The new fire pit was awesome but we were informed that is not really something the owners want us to use. No wood is provided. Hilarious. 10pm quiet time which we had 4 neighbors call the cops because we were having a conversation around the fire pit. Super fun
We enjoyed the house for the most part. Over all mediocre stay