For the last 12 years, our family has rented a vacation home on Lake Michigan to spend a few days with our very close friends from Chicago. Our custom is to go in the middle of summer or early fall. This year, we decided at the last minute to go over Memorial Day weekend. Our dear friend, the one who organized our first Lake Michigan vacation, is dying of cancer. She wanted to get together one last time. We needed everything about this weekend to be worthy of what it could come to mean to us in our memories. Thanks to Mark and his home, it exceeded all of our hopes. This house was the best house we've ever rented. That's the truth. It's big and had something for everyone. The three kids (10, 12, 17) had a ball in the game room and playing video games. We cooked dinner in the marvelous kitchen both nights and enjoyed roasting s'mores (complements of Mark) around the fire at night. We made the 2-minute drive (or the 20-minute walk in my case) to Saugatuck. We stayed up late and slept in later and filled every minute in between with fellowship and fun that will go down in family legend. Mark made it all happen. He not only booked us at the last minute, he bent over backwards to make every part of our stay special. Whatever we needed, he was a text away and accommodated us to the best of his ability. No VRBO owner we've ever encountered seemed to have a better feel for what we might need or want before we even knew we needed or wanted it! We will be back!