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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, we have rented vacation properties where we have discovered maintenance issues and had to call the management company to send someone out to fix something.  Just because you rent does not mean that you won't have your vacation disturbed by a maintenance issue.[/quote]

True.  But having the problem isn't as big an issue as getting it resolved.  If I have a rental, I call the owner and just work around it until they send someone to fix it.  Or ask for a refund.  If I'm the owner, I have to find someone who can fix the problem when I'm going to be there, make the arrangements, and pay for it.  A little different.

Another issue that I forgot about is one someone mentioned above -- you lose time to deal with stuff at your main residence.  You get home on Sunday night, and you have laundry to do, no food in the refrigerator for breakfast the next day, you need to pick up the dry cleaning....the list goes on.  Again, if you're someone who has time to get all of that done during the week, it can be great, but if you both work, it can make the week days more stressful. After we got rid of the second home, it seemed like such a luxury to be able to run errands on the weekend.

We decided that it made more sense to invest the $$ we were spending on a the second home one nicer home near our jobs.  I would own two homes again, but only if I were retired or semi-retired and could spend long stretches of time at each house (and had time to deal with the maintenance).

The other issue was when we added up what we were spending on the second home, we realized that we could take some REALLY nice vacations multiple times a year and still come out ahead. VRBO and Airbnb have been a game-changer.  It is so much easier now to rent, and you're not stuck in one location.  [/quote]

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