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Yes, I was using it three months out of year and renting it out for the other nine months (University Professor who left to his home country every summer). Now that I've sold my company (sort of retiring), I'm upgrading it in order to move into the main part of (has a in-law suite in the basement). Once I finish it, it will become my main home and I'll have to decide what to do with my main home as it can also be a vacation home.
No, I want to see the world. If we had a second home, I'd be like everyone else and say 'oh we bought this home blah blah blah, need to go use it. I like museums, great concerts, fine dining. I live where the later two are at a premium. And many people have second homes where I lived.
I like adventure, can't do that in the same place every year.
You can travel the world and still have a vacation home. It's like you can have different girlfriends but you still need a wife to go home to.
Parents have a lake house. Originally my dad's parents bought it just 10 years after the lake had been created. It was super cheap back then (rural GA and well before Atlanta became so large). We've been coming up here for weekends and extended holidays for literally decades. My parents plan on retiring and living there full time in about 5 years.
It can be frustrating doing work at home AND here (lush Georgia yards are a handful) but it's a net positive to escape the busyness of Atlanta. It's also expensive. House has been paid off for years but utilities add up even when you aren't there (has to be warm enough in winter to avoid frozen pipes and AC is run to keep humidity/mold down).
My parents think it's worth it. If you go up enough you it's more cost effective than renting. Plus you can make it your own.
I have two and use both. They were my rentals until I retired and the leases ran out. Any time I want to avoid or enjoy a certain season, I have a place to go.
We have a second home up north where we spend our summers. That is a summer home more than a vacation home though since we vacation elsewhere; my goal is to one day hire a manager to do the day to day down in Phoenix and ditch our current primary residence altogether but while I'm only 32 I don't see the point in that yet.
As for upkeep we have a guy who keeps the drive clear of snow and winterizes for us when we leave and a cleaning lady that keeps it tidy for us so we don't go up there just to do chores.
We have a winter in Arizona. So far it hasn't been any trouble keeping them both up. It's nice to get away for the winter, especially the Alaska winter.
I see others posting they don't have vacation homes... did you ask them too?
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Originally Posted by eddie1278
Vacation home? I don't even own my own home...yet. Must be nice to have that luxury. Now lets hear all the stories of how "hard you worked" to be able to have a vacation home
You can travel the world and still have a vacation home. It's like you can have different girlfriends but you still need a wife to go home to.
that wife is the primary home .
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