Part 1: A Breezy Oak Villas Vacation Home May NOT be for You IF…
Part 1 – We can’t meet your standards!
• You’re looking for absolute top-end luxury. In truth, there are far nicer (and much more expensive) vacation homes to stay in nearby. Our homes are targeted at those who want a better than average experience at a price that keeps them a good value.
• You want to stay in a nice, clean cookie-cutter ‘Stepford Wives’ kind of neighbourhood. Our neighbourhood is a conservation (half the area is left in its natural state) subdivision run by an HOA that appreciates diversity. The houses are not all the same boring cooking-cutter selection of five plans painted in one of only three colours with grass and one allowed palm tree out front. There are no cute playgrounds, no club-houses, community pools or weight rooms, no sidewalks on every street, and every square inch is not paved or landscaped over. It has a unique natural beauty some may not appreciate.
• You need neighborhood security gates and ill-equipped and badly trained ‘guards’ (slowing you down, invading your privacy, and recording your coming and going for no good reason at all) just to make you feel safe. We don’t have those things, but our neighborhood is actually safer than those that do, because we have lots of residents who live here and care about the area and each other. And those annoying gates won’t slow down emergency services if you need them. Our location is a bit off the beaten path and just outside the tourist area, and safer as a result.
• You demand a completely urban environment where you are highly unlikely to run into wild animals and birds. There is always a chance of this in a conservation area like Thousand Oaks, including extremely rare encounters with alligators (never seen one ourselves) and dangerous snakes. You may wake up to find sandhill cranes on the front lawn, or see an armadillo or snapping turtle on the street, or bald eagle in flight. You could even possibly see a black bear or bobcat! You may have to wait in your car for a few minutes while a mother bird leads her brood across the street. Around here we call that a traffic jam.
• You want to go walking and exploring interesting shops and restaurants, or relying on local transportation to do the same. At our properties (like all legal vacation rentals properties in the Orlando area) a car is required to get around and obtain even the most basic services.
• You want a huge vacation rental home to stay in. Our homes are typically smaller, without a lot of wasted space built just for show. They’re not the biggest, most grand homes out there… not by a long shot. They are cozy and they are comfortable. As my wife likes to say “Don’t think of our Vacation Rental as a small house, but rather as a gigantic amazing hotel suite.” In that sense, they’re perfect, but don’t assume they’re equal to what you have at home. Neither is a hotel room.
• You demand a house that is meticulously and perfectly cleaned, with only the latest and greatest decor. The vast majority of guests tell us our homes are very clean and well maintained… but are they perfect? No. I’ll be the first to admit it. Sure, sometimes… our homes could be a tiny, little bit cleaner, at an extra cost of $525 per booking, but the vast majority of our guests want us to provide better value than that.
(If you want the perfectly cleaned home at your arrival, instead of the nearly perfect home we provide, just let me know at least two months ahead of time, pay the $525 extra fee, and I’ll ensure you get the perfectly cleaned home! We do have that cleaner available, and she’s great, but she and her crew come at a premium price!)
• As for the decor, please check our photos and decide before you book if you like it or not. It’s quality-casual with a hint of whimsy. (By the way, complaining about the decor in an online review after your stay is a bonehead move. It only makes you look bad. The look of the house is amply evident in all of the photos we show of it. It may not be for everyone, so take a good look. If you want the latest trendy stuff [tacky, tacky, tacky…] then our property may not be for you, and you may want to look elsewhere.
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