Beach House
Rentals With A Personal Touch
Living and working in a
beach front summer town is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you can
make a killing on beach house rentals during the summer. One the other
hand, it gets pretty overcrowded during the summer and pretty deserted
during the rest of the year. Most of all, it can be hard to watch your
whole town bought up by rich out-of-state folks who do not even live
there for 9 or 10 months of the year. Still, in the end I like running a
beach house rental service. It lets me take it easy most of the year,
and who doesn't like to take it easy?
I didn't start out as a real estate guy. I was just someone with a
little bit of money to fix up a house. The idea of a beach house rental
hadn't even entered my mind in the beginning. I just wanted somewhere to
live that was close to the water. I found a fixer-upper that fit the
bill admirably. It was just what I was looking for. I had thought about
selling it and buying another one to work on, but then I saw how much
money people were paying for beach house rentals. The area was going up
and up. I didn't want to sell my house, and I really enjoyed living in
it for most of the year, but I was alright with staying somewhere else
for the summer. I decided to rent it out.
At first, the beach house rentals was just a side thing. It gave me
money to travel during the summer, and supplemented my living for the
rest of the year. People like beach rental houses by owner. Business was
always good, because I would give them the personal touch that they
wanted. I would make sure that the place was fully stocked with food,
and that it was in good repair. I would even show them around the town
when they first came for the summer. All in all, running the beach house
rentals was a good deal. Soon, I had made more money than I knew what to
do with. I'm pretty frugal by nature, you see, even when I'm travelling.
I decided to open up more beach house rentals. Now I own a dozen beach
house rentals. All I have to do is fix them up during the off-season,
make sure that people pay rent, and that is that. Life doesn't get any
better than this!