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[quote=Anonymous]Op, you seem unwilling to realize that the cottage will have all the problems that normally occur in a house, and usually more because periods of no use alone can cause problems.  If you don’t want to spend your weekends waiting for a plumber or hitting the hardware store, you need to budget for some type of maintenance service.  You’ll also have to grocery shop or pack tons offood every time you go.  My parents bought a beach house when i was an adult, and my brother was in middle school, about an hour from main house.  It was chronically underused, even though we had been vacationing in this town for decades.  My dad got bored with it, and my mom didn’t want to go alone. They did make a decent profit when they sold it but mainly because they had bought one of the last remaining empty lots, and built a custom home.  Now, in retirement, my parents refuse to buy a second home because of the first experience— it os a ton of work.  Go into it with your eyes open, you have romantic notions that seem incompatible with the work involved in maintaining 2 jomes.[/quote]

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