I can attest to vacation renters being a pain and having vacancies up to half the season. But again, as an exit strategy, you should always consider what your market will think is valuable. At the beach, all the prospective buyers that I spoke with, and there were many, told me that they wanted to rent to zonies in the lucrative summer season to help “pay-off the property”.
As a side note: When I was younger, I bought my first couple of homes thinking that I was going to stay for a long time, etc…
The stats say the average time is 7 years in a home. I’ve learned there is wisdom in statistics and this is one of them.
