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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people on DCUM just assume that others have bad intentions, including their close friends. That's weird to me. It's clear that OP doesn't want to let her friends stay there because she perceives that they're asking for a monetary gift (which I don't see, but whatever), and will dig her heels in farther and farther any time there is pushback. So you do you, OP. I think it will be awkward this way, but you seem prepared to deal with that.[/quote]

I think the friends made it awkward. [/quote]

+1 Same.  You can tell who does not own a second home, by their responses. For instance, cleaning fees alone, during season are about $500. (no, I won't divulge where). This may be difficult for non-owners to grasp, especially since some people are of the "Robin Hood" mindset. It beats paying full rental price, but takers don't see it that way. [/quote]

We get it. We have second homes. We just don't mind paying a few hundred dollars for our friends to use our house. You do you. [/quote]

You don't get it, because it is [b]well over a thousand dollars[/b] not a few hundred dollars (by the time you pay the professional cleaning company plus professional caretaker for their visits, etc.). It is not some podunk town, it is on the beach. So no, you don't get it. [/quote]

There is no way it is over a thousand dollars. Only people that don’t have beach houses would believe you. We have a house on Martha’s Vineyard. We pay our caretaker monthly and the water and electricity is on. So that makes a cleaning fee, which is less than what I pay here. And we have enough money that the cleaning fee isn’t a big deal for us to pay for the few people that use our house. But we also don’t rent our house out because we don’t need the money and don’t want strangers in our house. So I’m guessing you need to rent your Dewy Beach/Rehoboth house just to afford it. You don’t want to say where it is, because everyone will know you are just making things up.
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I'm not telling you where our beach house is, because you are obviously unstable enough to concoct an argument with an internet stranger. Stay mad.[/b] [/quote]

= my house is in Dewey and I need to rent it out to even afford it[/quote]

(The last posts were different posters)[/quote]

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