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[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]

So true.[/quote]

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