Don't stay with Sun Realty. It's a business not focused on your satisfaction.
We have a lengthy letter detailing our stay in September 2016 our of the Kill Devil Hills Office. If you've got the time, read on. The names have been taken out for privacy sake.
We stayed at property 411 from September 17th 2016 until September 24th 2016. The address is 2111 South Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, NC.
We had called in advance and talked to **** to ask that all the eating surfaces be cleaned very well as we have a son with severe food allergies. We asked that a note be put on the account to mention this. When we arrived the rental was not clean. The counters were grimy and there were stains on the dining table. Overall the rental was not clean, we found a cigarette pack with a lighter on the deck, an empty pop tart wrapper under our son's bed (which could have caused an allergic reaction). There were stains on the bottom bunk of our son's beds, dust on all the ceiling fans, a grimy trash can, a beer bottle with cigarette stubs on the top deck, and trash in the trash can under the bathroom sink on the main floor.
On the day of our arrival, we received a visit from a woman from what we assume was the cleaning service used by Sun Realty. She asked us to sign a piece of paper that stated we were happy with the cleanliness. When I mentioned that we had some grievances she did not show any concern and pressed us for a signature.
When we complained to Sun Realty, we were told we would be refunded the housekeeping fee, which they did, but we had to spend our own money on buying cleaning supplies to clean the kitchen up to a safe standard for our son.
At 8pm on the Saturday we arrived, a gentleman turned up at the house telling us he was here to fix the condensation line that was causing dripping outside the house. He was not wearing a uniform and did not have work identification on him or his vehicle. He was adamant that he had to come in and fix it that night because otherwise it could cause substantial damage to the house. He also told us that if we didn't let him in to fix it, we would have to turn off the AC. When we asked him who had sent him, he told us the owner, *****, had sent him. We asked him to call her so we could confirm that this was correct. He called a number and put it on speakerphone, it went directly to voicemail. We decided to call Sun Realty to see if they could confirm the work order. We reached ****, and he told us not to let him in and that he would check with the homeowner. He also said he would call back and let us know. When we asked the gentleman for his name, so we could tell Sun Realty who had turned up he refused to give it to us. He left the premises. This gentleman disturbed our first evening of vacation. We did not know if he was a legitimate maintenance person or a crook. We did not feel safe in the house. It was not until Tuesday that **** called to explain that the homeowner had had an inspection done on the home, and the inspector had ordered the maintenance man to turn up without the homeowner's knowledge. It seems unusual and unprofessional that the homeowner would not inform the rental company that a maintenance person would turn up and possibly disturb renters.
We were told that **** would refund us for the cleaning supplies. When we brought in the receipt, Jen told us that we would not be refunded the money. We told her that **** had offered to refund the money when we came in to complain about the cleanliness of the rental. She said she would call **** and find out. When **** called to inform us of the maintenance man, we asked about the money for the cleaning supplies. He told us that he would not be refunding us the money. We were very surprised that this was his response as he had offered to refund the money previously. We informed him that we felt that the refund was an act of goodwill as we had had so many issues with Sun Realty, and that we did not expect to be fully refunded. He begrudgingly said we would be refunded some of the money and to come by and pick it up.
On Tuesday evening it started to storm very heavily and during the night we heard water leaking in our bedroom. We checked and saw that it was coming from the window, right where the blind was. We put down towels for the night and called Sun Realty in the morning. They called the owner who said she wasn't willing to do anything to fix it, as she was in the process of selling the house and didn't want to put any more money into it. She was pricing a full window replacement. The person we talked to also said that she didn't think it was going to rain again when rain was clearly in the forecast. It rained for 2 more days. She suggested we fix the problem by putting more towels in the window and replacing them when they got soaked. We informed Sun Realty that this was absolutely not acceptable and that they had to do something to fix the water leaking into our room.
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