I rented 52nd Gateway from January 21 to January 26, 2025 with my 5 friends to attend the Barrett Jackson Auction. The house was an extreme disappointment with 40+ safety and broken items starting with exposed wires in the front and rear yards, missing door hinges, scotch tape holding a chair leg, blood stains on bedsheets, piles of trash in the 3rd garage area, broken off swimming pool room door, exterior A/C unit with wires sticking out the top, patio support post rotted away at the bottom, toilet roll holders missing in all bathrooms, bugs in light fixtures, cold room with no heat whatsoever...the list goes on.
After the first night our group was disgusted. We checked around but no large property was available at the last minute since we already paid in full and if we found another place didn't have the immediate funds to rent another place so we stuck it out, made a list of deficiencies with extensive photos and filed a Compensation Request Form online. To date there has been no response. A letter outlining the issues to Destination Arizona at the listed address of 7077 E. Marilyn Rd STE 130, Scottsdale AZ. was mailed. It was resent twice but came back "RETURN TO SENDER-VACANT UNABLE TO FORWARD"
At this juncture I went to the website DestinationAZVacations.com to the chat. I saw the house,52nd Gateway, on the site. The chat response was they couldn't help with anything except booking.
My last try will be to send our complaint to another address with the same name though it appears to be a residential single family home. If no response I will contact VRBO with my serious complaint. I am a VRBO Premier Host in Florida and would be ashamed to rent a house in such poor condition. read more