We will eventually want to take longer trips. If we decide to live on the road for a year does anybody have experience renting their homes while they travel? We have quite a few large local plants that need rentals for employees who move here and want to build or house hunt at their leisure. There are several local agents who specialize in this kind of rental.Our other choice is to find a student who needs a favorable living situation and just let them house sit. We have had great experience with this on shorter terms. But we were younger and had easy connections with young starving students.Any suggestions?

I've had a bad experience with a house sitter and will not do it again. I know other people who have had better experiences, and some who have had worse. My situation involved having to take action against a sitter who had converted the house to their storage locker, and cost me more than $15K to get it back to usable/rentable condition.My experience with renters has not been much better, on my rental properties, but working out what the repairs and rehab will cost, and rolling that into the rent, is all part of the business.I would not rent out my primary residence just because I am going to be away for a while. This is my house, it is my life, and I don't need anyone messing with it while I am away. I've been gone for as long as two years at a time, and rather than trying to make the house income property, I hire professional caretakers to look after it while I am gone.

I wouldn't let anybody borrow my car, my truck, my camera, my wife, etc.why would I let them borrow my house?bumpy

No. Either sell the house or let your mother live in it! Anyone else will destroy it. You'll regret it.

DutchmenSport wrote:No. Either sell the house or let your mother live in it! Anyone else will destroy it. You'll regret it.I tend to agree with all these comments.Winterize it if need be and arrange with a trusted friend or family member to check up on it every couple of weeks.When your extended adventure is over, ALL of your stuff will be exactly where you left it......hopefully.

for a year its not worth the hassle. only if you know the person your going to let live there.pay the guy next door very well to look after it.

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DutchmenSport
Explorer
Nov 03, 2016
No. Either sell the house or let your mother live in it! Anyone else will destroy it. You'll regret it.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Nov 03, 2016
I wouldn't let anybody borrow my car, my truck, my camera, my wife, etc.
why would I let them borrow my house?
bumpy
tatest
Explorer II
Nov 03, 2016
I've had a bad experience with a house sitter and will not do it again. I know other people who have had better experiences, and some who have had worse. My situation involved having to take action against a sitter who had converted the house to their storage locker, and cost me more than $15K to get it back to usable/rentable condition.

My experience with renters has not been much better, on my rental properties, but working out what the repairs and rehab will cost, and rolling that into the rent, is all part of the business.

I would not rent out my primary residence just because I am going to be away for a while. This is my house, it is my life, and I don't need anyone messing with it while I am away. I've been gone for as long as two years at a time, and rather than trying to make the house income property, I hire professional caretakers to look after it while I am gone.

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