Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment
December 18th, 2009 | 
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Vacation properties are not just for the elite and wealthy!
If you were a rich man… Stop right there! Just because you’re not rich doesn’t mean you don’t want a second home to get away from life, as you know it. Whether you dream of living on the beach with sand between your toes or getting away from civilization in a mountain cabin, you don’t have to be a Rockefeller to enjoy your dream home.
In Profit From Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment, vacation home buying expert Christine Hrib Karpinski shows you how to not only make your vacation home dream a reality, but to get others to pay your mortgage when you’re not enjoying your home away from home. By renting your vacation home using Karpinski’s recipe for successful vacation home ownership, you will soon be on the road to buying, enjoying and profiting from your second, third – and even fourth home.
Karpinski will show you how to:
· Evaluate the different types of vacation properties and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each.
· Determine how many weeks you need to rent your home and how much you can charge to break even.
· Become a master at managing real estate transactions – from negotiating the purchase price to maintaining the property – from the comfort of your hometown.
· Determine if renting-by-owner or working with a property management company is right for you.
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Great read if you are thinking of buying or have just purchased a second home.
-wintergreenrentalsonline
Rating: 4 / 5
Owners of a home who dream of owning a second home for vacation purposes might have thought of the possibility as a dream for the rich, but Profit From Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide To A Savvy Financial And Emotional Investment tells otherwise: it holds the potential of being a wise move on several fronts, and provides the basics on how such a home can pay for itself when not in use by its owners. From how to rent a vacation home to a formula for successful vacation home ownership, this tells how to evaluate properties, weigh pros and cons, determine what’s needed to break even on the investment, and even how to work with property management companies.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book gave me a lot of tips that as a first time second home/vacation rental buyer I found to be very helpful.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book offers good real world advice and insight into the process of making a vacation home into a self managed vacation rental. The internet has revolutionized the opportunity for owners to buy and rent vacation property, and this book outlines how you can capitalize on this.
Jeff Busche
VacationRentals.com
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is as weak as the last book. Unfortunately, my wife bought both of her books without reading the reviews. Big mistake…
I read the book and it was basically a re-hash of her old book. It looks like she has quite a marketing arm behind her now though, as she is working for one of the big vacation rental websites now. Go figure. I guess they are making her publish the same junk, but with their spin on it. I also noticed that all of the super positive reviews for this book seem pretty fake and contrived. Watch out!
Rating: 1 / 5