We rented a house at 1148 N Rose Avenue in Palm Springs from MB Desert Properties for a 4 week winter vacation. We arrived, after a 1350 mile drive and met the agent to check in. From the outside the house looked fine. Upon entering the home we were given a very rushed tour (I have no idea where he needed to be that was so much more important than showing us the basics of the house we were to live in for the next 4 weeks, but it was apparent that we were low priority.) Right off the bat it was clear the house was deep down dirty. Baseboards looked like they hadn't been cleaned for years, countertops were grease smeared, crud was built up in the sink and on the stove, the windows were grimy, tile floors hadn't been washed, etc. He gave us the impression that he knew very little about the property. He didn't even know where the vacuum was (no surprise there) and admitted he had tried to put chlorine in to "shock" the pool only to discover it was salt water! We still owed for half of the month's rent, thankfully, so I explained to him that the house would need to be cleaned before we could pay the rest of the rent and move in. At first he was pushy and threatened that if we didn't move in and pay the balance right then we would be in "breach of contract" and the owner could and would rerent it to someone else. We ignored his attempt at intimidation, stuck to our guns, and he eventually agreed to having the place cleaned so that we could move in. We got a hotel and waited for that to happen. The next morning he called and said that we could move in, or not, but that he wouldn't be doing any cleaning. The agent offered me $100 to "take care of it myself". We asked for our deposit back, minus $1000 for their trouble and began a heated 2 hour exchange between the agent and my husband. At one point, when my husband said he would leave negative reviews about the property and him, the agent claimed the owner would sue us for slander. My husband asked the agent to explain to the owner (an attorney, no less) that slander was when you lied about something and as we had plenty of true things we could say, we were not concerned. We were eventually handed over to the owner, who was a bit more reasonable without the unstable agent in the middle, and agreed to have his housekeeper meet me and clean the house. As this was the housekeeper that he claimed " cleaned regularly, whether he was in residence or not" it was hard for me to imagine that we could get the house to a point I was comfortable with without me working with this poor gal for the first few days of my vacation. This, coupled with all the bad will that had passed between us led to us making the decision to just walk away. We settled on getting $500 refunded with an additional $1000 if the home rerented. Friends in Palm Springs told us there was a car parked at the home and it looked as though someone was staying there. My daughter wrote the manager, under the guise of wanting to rent it and was told it couldn't be rented because the owner was using the property. We quit waiting for our money. The Post Office inadvertently forwarded some of my mail to the home (even though I had cancelled the service). The property manager never forwarded it back and to this date, after repeated attempts to contact the manager, have never heard back from him even though I told him friends could pick it up and get it back to me. In summation, I can't recommend either this managing company or this property. Between his lack of professionalism, low standards, and intimidation tactics and the properties filth and disrepair, this is not a good place to attempt a vacation. With all that is available in Palm Springs, you have to be able to do much better. read more