Consumer alert: Vacation rental owners are lying to you

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Vacation rental hosts lie.

At least that's the experience of Mehar Satsangi, who booked a vacation rental this summer.

"The pictures were a complete misrepresentation of the actual room," she recalls. "The host admitted to us that some of the pictures were false representations — and she apologized."

But by then, it was too late. She'd already booked the rental.