Notebook
March 29th, 2024 by Gary Osberg

One more thing about the scam in Sun City West.  VRBO is not the villain in this story.  The host is the villain.  One of my sister’s daughters did some investigating and it turns out that the owner of 12506 West Skyview Drive in Sun City West operates under three different names.  The scam doesn’t always work.  Sometimes the renter does check in by email between the hours of noon and 4pm MST.   The fellow is simply mean.  My brother and I are planning to gather documentation on the many attempts that he made to check in and get instructions on how to enter the house and mail a packet to the Attorney General in Arizona.

On the bright side, Bill and I got to spend the whole two weeks at Kathie and Duaine’s home in Sun City West.  We were able to have coffee with the Granite Falls men at Bashas’ grocery store every morning from 9 until 10.  The numbers are lessening with the aging of everyone, but I did manage to get addicted to “Bear Claws”. 

The birthday party for brother Geoff on Sunday the 17th was a blast.  The weather was perfect.  Sister Kathie has wanted a recreation of the picture of the six siblings that was taken in 1984 at a family gathering at the lake.  We managed to pull it off. Brother Bill even took his shirt off for the occasion.  Photos are attached.

One other thing, VRBO did send brother Bill a $2,600 refund, 80% of our rental fee.  

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”  Robert Louis Stevenson 

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