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Originally Posted by Nancy10

We rented from someone via Villages4rent.com and had a disappointing experience. As far as I can tell, that website does not allow for feedback from renters so there is no way to communicate such an experinece.
Just for starters, the kitchen was very poorly equiped. There were 2 teaspoons in the flatware set, for example. There were many such examples of the poorly equiped house. The furniture was dirty. It took 3 months to get our deposit back. Money was withheld from the deposit for an unfair reason, we believe. We did not dispute that because we felt very fortunate to be finished with the woman who owned the home. This was an expensive rental, about $4,000, as I recall.
We rented previously from the same website and a different owner with an excellent experience except the gas golf cart had a lot of fumes. I think you can rent your own cart but don't know the details of that.
The Villages4Rent is not the only place to rent a house. You can rent from The Villages sales office, I think.
Sorry to have a bad experience to share and I wish you well in your search for a good experience.
I think renters would, for the most part, be willing to let you or your rep, check out the house before renting. As someone said, good "landlords" want good, repeat renters and I think would be willing to make the effort and want to meet you, too.

I have rented 4 times from The Villages 4 Rent, Rentals in The Villages. All experiences were great. During one rental last year there were a few minor problems with internet access and the garage door not opening, but the landlord fixed those problems right away. I received my security deposit either upon check out or within 10 days after checking out. I think it helped that all landlords so far have lived in The Villages and could respond to any problems right away. Today starts rental number 5, and I brought a few things over to the rental house last night -- house looks just like it did the photos www.thevillages4rent.com, which is good.

Yes, you can rent your own golf cart if the home doesn't come with a golf cart. The online version of the Daily Sun has golf cart rental places in their classified section, or you can search on TOTV for golf cart rentals. Another web site to rent from that has listings in The Villages is VRBO® is Vacation Rentals By Owner.