The 2 stars is an average of 2.5 stars for the condo itself, 2 for the accuracy and rental process and 1 star for the location.
Let me start with a positives: the host was courteous, responsive, and was nice enough to call and check the first day if everything was ok and promised to check if late checkout was possible (it wasn't). Digital locks greatly simplified check-in and check-out. The condo was well-stocked with beach accessories: chairs, cart, cooler, toys.
The condo was small: beds completely filled the bedrooms, and when sofa was opened there was no space in the living room either. The sunset mentioned in the description is an outright lie - the condo and the beach it's on are facing SSE so you couldn't see the sunset from anywhere in the building or even if you walked down to the very edge of the beach. Renovation is a lie too - everything looked and dilapidated and original to when the condo was built back in the 80s. Most of the things worked but barely: showers sprayed water everywhere, dishwasher didn't open the soap compartment at the right time and left a blob of soap and required second cycle to clean it out, drier didn't work in automatic mode. The locks required multiple tries to open. There was mold in the bathrooms.
The management policies are not guest-friendly: when I reached out to the manager a week before the start of the rental about how to get in she demanded that I give excessive personal information about all members of my family (despite payment and deposits having been already processed by VRBO) and forced me to sign a 3 page contract before releasing the access code. The contract contained many provisions not outlined in the listing policies and had a bunch of gotcha fines: for leaving more than 2 loads of dirty laundry (seemed reasonable until I discovered that the washer was the smallest I have ever seen - got filled by just the set of towels), for moving around furniture (had to be moved to open the sofa) and half a dozen of others. As I mentioned by the time we saw the contract the payment became non-refundable.
But the worst was the location - the beach is huge it takes almost 10 minutes to get to the closest part of the beach walking over what becomes a swamp after a rain, 20 minutes to the least terrible part of the beach. The beach itself is a mix of sand and sharp broken shells, but it becomes slimy sediment one you get few feet into the water. The water is really murky because of the sediment which