This property was clearly suffering from negligible maintenance and a poor standard of cleaning.

The tidy, grassed, frontage shown in the photographs disappeared some time ago. Now there is a patch of dirt, overgrown shrubbery, damp moss growing above the entrance and a scruffy, dirty and uninviting front door.

Lighting is needed to do anything indoors, at any time of the day. The building is surrounded by over-sized plants and the rear yard is seriously overgrown. This makes the lanai dark all day. The rear yard is another patch of dirt.

A serious concern is the state of the air conditioning. The amount of dirt spread around the outlets indicates a lack of cleaning but also that the filters have probably not been replaced in a long time. This is not helped by the dirt accumulating on the top of the fan paddles.

Equally concerning was the appalling state of the stove top extract filter and the fact that the oven had not been cleaned.

The kitchen and bathrooms have cupboards and drawers full of junk, rubbish and left-overs from previous visitors. There was a collection of part-used sauce bottles in the refrigerator and a dry goods cupboard full of unused and part-used items; all of dubious quality, vintage and cleanliness.

The master bath is in real need of refurbishment. The grouting in the shower stall is dirty and cracked/missing – from which a plague of flies arrives every morning.

All the windows needed cleaning, as did the slats of the blinds. The internal walls and doors were covered with grubby finger marks and this was especially apparent on the doors from the lanai and the walls around the kitchen.

A lot of the furniture was grubby/dirty; the desk chair in the den was broken; the seat covers in the den were dirty as were all the seat cushions on the lanai.

The kitchen is well equipped but a lot of the crockery was chipped/cracked and nothing really felt clean. The chopping boards were unhygienic as were the pot holders and tea towels.

On the lanai the table was caked with dirt – hiding under grubby place-mats. The sun loungers were in a disgusting condition.

Cleaning everywhere has been superficial for some time; ledges, base boards and corners were caked in dirt, especially behind doors. There had been no cleaning under/behind furniture in the master bedroom and there was a large stain on the underside of the comforter.

The vacuum cleaners were dirty and one was packed with dirt.

The garbage cans needed a really good clean.