You may be joking (sometimes jokes go over my head), but I can't help but step in here and say that I have told many people that the renters we've had at our cottages have taken very good care of our cottages over the past 6 years, and many are even gentler on our cottages than we have been with our own home). I imagine that Watersound would get renters who take care of places, too. Like many people, I had assumed that renters would be really hard on our cottages, but it has turned out that the opposite is true. They've been respectful and very appreciative of the cottages and SoWal. They feel like vacationers who are lucky enough to have found a special place on earth with an uncrowded beach where they can thoroughly enjoy their friends and families. For me, it feels good to offer people a place they can escape to and feel welcome. And when I travel, I hope the people I rent from feel the same way about me.
Of course, we use a management company and they do all the maintenance and cleaning, so I don't see the occasional mess left by someone. As far as I'm concerned, having vacationers in SoWal seems to bring much more good than the occasional problem.