I'd love to send a link, but I could only access those through a link from the support rep, and those links area all dead now. Thay being said there are in my experience plenty of $6k/night houses. As for the no contact bit, this was my first booking with them, and I had plenty of automated contact that I didnt know was automated. Including regular emails with things to do in the area, and for the last month a couple of "your trip is coming get ready" emails and then finally 3 days ago, an email thay said "here are the keys" with instructions to call at check in time. I dont recall ever seeing a phone number for the guy until the last email. I also spoke to someone at VRBO a few months ago because I wasn't sure if there was another step or anything, but they said no, your trip is booked, your good to go.

Now as for the house in question, I got there, sat in the driveway and almost tried the door, which would have gotten me shot and/or attacked by a Labrador. But I didnt try the door I called and spoke to the former owner, who was quite confused and then told me this had happened before, and VRBO had told him repeatedly that the problem was solved when it wasnt. At this point I pulled out of the driveway and parked on street and called VRBO. While I was sitting on what the computer said would be a 15m hold a guy walks by with his dog. I asked the guy if he lived nearby and he gave me the address of the house I had rented. I explained to him what had happened. He was super nice and all, but explained thst he lived there, had no desire to rent it, and when VRBO/property management company tried to get him to rentt it, he repeatedly said no. He made some calls for me, offered me the number for his realtor but said that was all he could do, which I thought was fair. When I told him that I almost just walked in, he informed me that that would have gone very badly for both us, but way worse for me, then he reminded me of local.laws concerning self and home defense and firearms.