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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't rent our vacation house, but we love when friends or family can use it when we can't. We use a cleaning service after our own stays, and we tend to ask people to pay that...but it's a tiny fraction of what renting a house would be.

Maybe because we don't rent the place this doesn't seem like an imposition...but my parents have a place that'll they rent our, but they let friends and family use it for free.

For us and my parents, the properties are there for enjoyment and also are long term investments. 1-2 weeks of rent or a cleaning fee just doesn't change the math at all. [b]But friends enjoying themselves? That gives me joy as well.[/b][/quote]

Previous poster again.  I could have written this post as well!! 
It gives me great joy to know that quite a few of our friends have enjoyed our house over the years and have made their own memories there.  It's a happy place a few blocks from the ocean.

We feel very fortunate to have purchased it when we did.  It was a lucky move the year after hurricane Sandy.

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Yes, it makes me ecstatic to give up a prime rental week, and not use it myself,  for people who don't respect the place as their own and expect to use it every year for free.  Here, let me move my things out for you so you can move in. Why don't you take the whole summer? On me!  We can deliver groceries by hand, too.  Let me know what you need. I especially love paying your cleaning fee. Because doormat. What else do you expect for free? By all means, name it! We didn't buy the house for us, we bought it for you.  Everything is for you. When can we deliver the keys?  So you want keys to all the house, or just one?

This thread takes the cake. Y'all think people are thinking about you, when they have their own families, and their own issues first and foremost, to tend to. GMAB. [/quote]

Huh.  You don't get it, do you?  We don't do this so others think about us. We do it because we care about our friends.  More than once we've had friends stay there that (either known to us or unknown until after the fact) were going through a really hard time (financially or health wise).

When we're not using the house we don't Airbnb it.  I'd much rather have it used vs. sitting empty.  We're lucky if we're there a month across all summer weeks.  In almost a decade we've never had friends leave deck furniture out, break things or otherwise not take of the property.  We can control the thermostat remotely so we'll check to make sure the air is off when people leave.  It's really not a big deal.  Our lives are super busy.  It this was a source of hassle or stress we wouldn't do it but it really has not been.  [/quote]

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