I haven’t heard of the shire, but have learned about problems from renting houses the hard way. These are some of the things that we had issues with. We don’t sweat the small stuff, but the issues we experienced could drive a person nuts.
I agree with the above poster to make sure there is someone to call if you have an issue. We set off the fire alarm while cooking prime rib and without a number to call to tell them what happened, we would have had an expensive visit from the fire department. We had no way to turn off the alarm ourselves. Imagine Christmas dinner with a fire alarm going off for a long time until the management company found a way for us to turn it off.
The child protective sliding doors to a pool had had an audible alarm that went off whenever they were opened. That meant no leaving them open and no quiet visits to the pool at night without everybody in the house knowing the doors were opened. The alarm constantly going off all day drive us nuts. There was no way to turn it off. We had no kids with us.
We paid a lot for pool heat not knowing it was only for a few hours per day. The pool water circulated through the hot tub so we either had a cold swim during the day or no heat in the hot tub at night. We could not change the timer that adjusted when the pool heat was on. Very disappointing for $20/day.
Check everything when you first arrive. We have had problems like no ends on pool sticks, no hangers in the closet, no tp, no ac upstairs and no way to adjust it.
All the management companies we contacted about issues after arrival were great, but they had a limit on what they could fix. Thank goodness we had a company to contact that answered the phone 24 hours per day.
Many of these issues took us by surprise. It would have been better to know these details before our arrival.
If you end up renting a long distance from the park, make sure to check google maps for traffic before heading out each day. The drive directions may change every day because of backups and accidents. We have a rule to never get on I4 without checking current travel conditions first. I4 is the direct route from the Championsgate area and it is frequently backed up. One of the entrances requires a toll, so check first and carry your Sunpass transponder just in case you end up at a toll booth. We never intended to drive on toll roads but had to on occasion to get around backups from accidents.