This was our annual August girls trip to the St George area. We have been renting homes for over 15 years. This house would be on our top five for places to stay except for several issues that would put it on the WORST list because of management non response to issues that were not minor. The home is new so of course they are working out kinks, this is expected. And visiting the area at this time of year we are aware of spiders, roaches, flying bugs and ants but let me say in all of my 62 years I have never faced a more daunting challenge and furious combat with a colony of ants so determined to destroy a vacation in my life. We contacted the management company the first day to request some items missing from the house like dish soap, dish clothes, kitchen towels, and a full garbage can that smelled up the garage and at that time told them we had an ant problem which was excessive. Could they send someone over to do something about it. They said they would get back with us. They never did. So after waiting the four hours we called back and said could they send someone out to look at the problem. They said they would and never did. As women who all have battled ants before we set out to draw our swords…we clean floors, remove all food from the counters, rearranged pantries and snacks, washed all surfaces and continued to try to stop them. But those little buggers kept coming. They drew their battle lines…up the kitchen walls, filled the bottom of the dishwasher, drawers, cracks in the doorways, climbing out of the stove, and had suicide missions into our oatmeal and bacon grease as we cooked. They invaded every nook and cranny in the kitchen/seating area. We counted their attacks by vacuuming couches, cushions and rugs constantly. We stomped, dapped, poked and squished to no avail. Finally after returning from a night out watch 5 mothers spending three hours killing ants I wrote an angry plea for help email to the management company and you guessed it no response to-date. 4 days in I couldn’t stand watching my daughter’s cleaning house on their vacation not just the normal daily cleaning but continuously deep cleaning so I called again. I was frustrated by that point and requested the owners name of the home. UBVR said they didn’t have it and I would have to contact the manager on Monday. We did our best to conquer but feel we left defeated.
So if you love to clean and if you want to do battle with ants this definitely is the house for you.