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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this industry attract so many scammers and grifters? From developers, to agents to property managers there are so many people in the middle or attaching themselves like parasites with doing any work or adding any value.

MIL has been encouraging us to use her beach house. Her agreement with her property management company is that she can book her house whenever it is not booked and only incur a cleaning fee. We were considering it but then found out the cleaning fee was $500. To bring two small dogs the pet fee would be $250 per dog and the property management realtors reserve the right to charge an undisclosed surcharge on top of this if there is more shedding than they expect. I looked at reviews for people staying guests with homes attached to this rental service and it’s full of guests complaining about ridiculous undisclosed fees and surcharges for lots of nonsense. This company screws it owners on the opposite end inflating what they claim to have done, always double charging her and taking forever and a zillion meetings to sort it out. We passed on the “great deal” weekend costing over $1000 when we could book a hotel for half.

Neighbor is a realtor and actively trying  to convince anyone who won’t run away that everyone is still paying six percent split between buyers and sellers. No one is doing that here.

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Where is the beach house? Your MIL should tell the property management company that it's an owner stay and that no cleaning service is requested/required. You will obviously have to make sure that you leave it in proper condition at the end of your stay. We own a beach house too and have never had a problem doing it this way. If her management company won't let you stay without including the cleaning fee, then she should consider switching to another company when her current contract comes up. It's always best to shop around and compare different quotes/services from time to time. [/quote]

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