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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is totally unreasonable for them to ask. If I regularly give a person a ride in my car then I have plans to go out of town for a couple of weeks , it isn’t reasonable the person asks to borrow my car. They can go get a rental car.

Your house is an asset and you can rent it for probably $1000 for a spring weekend. Friends wouldn’t ask for a $1000 so why do they think it is ok to use something worth $1000.

It is a slippery slope. Once you say yes these friends will continue to pester you. Just say it is being rented off the books 📚 n case they can see the online schedule of when it is rented through a booking agency. [/quote]

[b]this is really good advice, thank you.[/b]
I think some ppl just assume being someone has a second home, they can afford that 1000 hit. These ppl know us well enough to know we cannot. Although we enjoy it, often with them, it is a business, and someone must pay the utilities, cable, internet, etc.
I suppose that's why it feels funny to us. 
It could also be booked at the last minute, and has before. [/quote]

Actually, it's not good advice to lie to your friends...[/quote]

DP here.  If you were the one that owned the second home, you would feel differently.  I completely agree that people see those who own a second home as "rich" or able to take the monatery hit - to "treat" others (at others discretion, of course!).  Who doesn't like trying to spend other people's money?  I distance myself from those types, because they are exactly as clueless as you would expect.  [/quote]

I do own a second home. At the beach. I let people stay there for free but I also have no problem saying no if it doesn't work for whatever reason. But I don't lie to my friends. And they don't take advantage of us. A lot of them have second homes elsewhere that we have stayed at. We just don't go tit for tat about it all. [/quote]

+1. Not sure whether it's OP or someone else swearing people do not really do this, but clearly there are multiple people who do.

If you don't want someone staying at your place without you, by all means, don't allow it. Others choose differently.[/quote]

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