Leasing out your S&B home?
Hello friends! We want to go full time but don't want to give up the S&B yet. It's a nice older home (70's) on a lake just North of Milwaukee. We believe we should be able to get top dollar for a l...
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Larryzv7 wrote:
It’s best to lease out your house, especially if you’re going to be gone for long periods of time, otherwise you may return to find squatters in your home. A lot of homes that were abandoned became places where homeless people camped out, and even if you have a burglar alarm system on your house, as I do, when people know you’re gone for a long time they can find their way around that alarm system and your house may become a target for thief. Having someone live in your home can be a deterrent, as a lived in house is probably not as often targeted as a vacant house.
Not necessarily - you may have irreparably costly damage done to your home while away. Best leave it empty with neighbors, family or friends looking in on it. I've done it for 30 years, and some of my neighbours are like family to me anyway. Rent it out to strangers, and have it destroyed? No way I'd ever do that. My home is more valuable than to let strangers live in it. Yuk!
