We’re going away with another family this summer, so for the past few weeks I’ve been combing through vacation rental websites looking for the perfect place for us to stay. I’ve been consistently amazed by the photos some of these owners post of their properties. I always assumed that you’d want to take pictures of your house looking its best, just ready and waiting for the perfect tenant to come along. This is apparently not the case, if these photos are anything to go by:
See how nice and clean our mattresses are?
This is a common theme. Potential guests just love the thought of making up beds after a long drive.
Nice house—but wait! Is that a dog’s butt in the lower right? Does this house smell like dog?
Oh God, no. I’m not spending my entire rained-out vacation playing parcheesi under the watchful eye of that…person.
Wow! This house has a great view…of a postcard of a sunset. Nice try.
DO NOT WANT. There’s nothing like settling back into furniture that may or may not have had a naked toddler bum on it. Then again, there’s nothing like coming back from a day trip to find your vacation house has been raided by the FBI. So this house is a win-win.
We did finally find a nice place near Acadia National Park, but rest assured that I will continue to mine the web for more shameful vacation homes!