We had a great time, we'd do it again in a heartbeat. We stayed over a month. Check in was seamless, gate code and door code worked perfectly everything was wonderful.
A couple things we wish we'd known, whether or not we could do anything about it:
1) The biggest thing is being we stayed a long time, we had food and such delivered as usual from Amazon. SOMETIMES, Amazon delivers via US Postal Service. Mail doesn't come to the door, it goes into a locked set of mailboxes at the corner. This particular house never set up with the post office, so there is no key. USPS marked a package as delivered in Amazon tracking, so we guessed it was in the locked mailbox. We left a note for the letter carrier and they brought it to the house the next day, but with a nastygram, "NO MORE DELIVERIES" We took that note to the post office and they said, "Yeah, unless you're staying there 6 months, we don't have to deliver mail to you." that's kind of a big problem since we don't know how Amazon will ship our various things day to day. So, we/you either have to get a post office box or resort to shopping in stores like it's 1993.
2) Florida is buggy, so tell your family from up north who come with you :) We even bought roach traps and kept the house spotless (Florida requirement) but over the course of a month, saw two. No big. They're "Palmetto bugs" in Florida.
3) We went back and forth as to whether or not we should pay to heat the pool in March. We were there the whole month of March. They told us the timer shut off the heater over night, so early morning it might be a few degrees lower. I never went in too early but it was always nice. BUT, even the last day we were there (April 2) it was still a good day to pay to heat. There were several 90º days where it probably never kicked on, but it was worth it. No time wasted acclimating to the pool.
4) Bring some potholders (unless Rentavilla reads this and gets some)
5) There is room for exactly two cars. There are signs all over the neighborhood that any cars left in the street overnight will be towed. We had a third family member visit, and we were kind of panicking where to park him. We found a place.
7) Ok, it's kind of picky, but the tv's sound is kind of crappy, and since all the walls and floors are smooth, it's very echoey. My 32 year old wife kept turning the subtitles on for movies. We ended up moving the TV to the coffee table (it's very light) and that was a million times better.
