Charming home with spacious deck and patio, washer/dryer & high-speed WiFi

It was a wonderful place to stay with your family for both young and old.

Location accommodations and price Clean nice sheets

The property was great--could use a good cleaning out as people have left stuff in duplicates over the years. We also found a fantasy football draft from ten years ago! There's no "how to" instruction book with this property, so you wouldn't know, and neither did the renters before us, that trash is picked up twice a week and you have to bring the cans to the curb. This meant that the raccoons got into the trash and spread it everywhere, leaving us a big mess. The communication with the property management company was extremely difficult when we had other problems: there's no filtered water option and the dishwasher was broken -- simple things if relayed to us ahead of time would have spared us running out to get paper plates and bottled water (which is not sold in Eastham FYI).

This house was in a great location - association beach down the street, and a short drive to First Encounter Beach and National Seashore Beaches where we saw some great sunsets and sunrises. It is also relatively comfortable and was very clean upon check-in, and the master bed was comfortable and quiet. The kitchen has been redone and is very bright, with new appliances - and we made good use of the washer and dryer. The house is really overdue for some TLC, however. It needs more silverware (it didn't have any tablespoons!), the kitchen lacked a dish-drying rack, oven mitts (clean ones, at least - what we found were covered in grease), kitchen towels, and a small pot to boil water for tea. We purchased all these items at the local Christmas Tree shop and left them behind for future guests. The fire pit was very rusted, and the outside grill hadn't been cleaned in ages. The floor leading from the kitchen to the master bedroom was warped in spots, we were afraid of tripping or putting a foot through it. The house would also greatly benefit from a reference book for guests, with information including (1) fire and policy phone #s, (2) how to use the thermostat in the living room, (3) how to use the t.v. (the listing mentions Netflix availability, we were never able to access it), (4) arranging for garbage pick-up (we had no idea what the schedule was and had to arrange for a mid-stay pickup during our two-week stay), (5) information on local attractions and restaurants (including menus). We have rented houses on the Cape for 20 years and this was the first house we found lacking and were disappointed in. Maybe this was the result of it being after busy season, but we typically come to the Cape in mid-to-late September and have never been disappointed with our other rentals as we have with this one. We did reach out to Vacasa while in the house to express our disappointment and while Vacasa was quick to respond and say my email was forwarded to the local property manager, we have yet to hear from that property manager (we've been home for a few days after a 16-day stay at the property).