We cannot thank you enough for the use of your home this week. Usually, a vacation home serves primarily as a “home base” from which we come and go to our daily adventures, but your house was so much more. For one week, your home was truly our home. Our family just loved living here for the week. From the minute we arrived, until the minute we left, Mark and I and our four girls felt comfortable and happy and had everything we needed here. Yes, we packed so much fun into our vacation here in the Keys in one short week (great HOT weather, reef fishing one day and backcountry fishing another out of Hawks Cay, fishing and swimming from your dock, kayaking, snorkeling, feeding tarpon by hand, interacting with the dolphin at the Dolphin Research Center down the street , saw a manatee and plenty of iguanas, took a day trip to Key West) but through it all, your house was the constant and also afforded us valuable time to rest and relax. The joy and family time we burned into the memory of photos and video will always be with us, lest we ever want to relive our precious time here.

This rental exceeded our expectations! Our stay on Duck Key was really enjoyable. The July 2014 weather helped a lot, but the accommodations and comfort of this house helped to put a positive "exclamation point" on everything. Days on and off the water began and ended in the comfort, convenience, and beauty of Duck Key. The descriptions and pictures of the property give a 2-D perspective, but being there is all 3-D! All details and correspondence with the owners and team were extremely pleasant and understanding. A++!

Please make sure you pay with a credit card (preferably through VRBO) and don't mail a check. At least you will have recourse if you disagree with any deductions. The price advertised for a monthly rate is increased significantly for a shorter stay. We were fine with the price increase, but it is deceptive. The house is advertised as a 3 BR, but is deceptive because you have to go outside and downstairs to get to the 3rd BR, which may not be a problem for some, but being on a different level than our children in the bunk room was completely inconvenient and resulted in our four year old sleeping in our bed (she was too scared to sleep upstairs because she didn't want to go outside to get to our bed if she got up in the middle of the night). The TV didn't work until we only had 2 days left of our week stay and we had to interrupt a boating trip to come back to the house meet a dish network person who we helped remove palm fronds that were blocking the dish. TV may not have been a big deal on vacation except we missed the basketball Final 4 in which two of our native Kentucky teams were playing. Basically - it was significant to us. The owner didn't get on it immediately and we had to wait through the weekend to get the TV back on and by that time we didn't need it. In the basement, we found 2 large millipedes in our sheets. I woke up in the middle of the night and one was on my neck. However, the primary issue is concerning the handling of our security deposit. The owner reduced our deposit. Her rational was $50 for an outdoor faucet handle that broke off when I was turning it off. It was on the dock and fell apart in my hand because it was corroded from the salt water. The only reason that she knew this was because I also manage property and have owned vrbos and wanted her to take note of it along with other items that needed attention that I sent to her in an email. The other reduction was because of cleaning issues. We paid a significant non-refundable cleaning fee up front and left the place in good condition. She claims her cleaning person spent 4 additional hours cleaning, which is absurd. The amount of money $XXX (because $ can’t be posted in vrbo reviews) is not that significant given the amount of money we paid to stay there; however, since we paid with a check, we have no recourse, no documentation from the homeowner, and the principle of the matter is enough to warn you in this review. Pay with a credit card through vrbo.