[Biggd]

I know many people that rent but it's work and as others have said, it reduces your access. The prime rental months are July and August. That's when you get the most money. If you're fine with giving up prime time at your second home to others then you will be able to cover expenses. We rented for 6 years and we always had trouble finding a nice place because my wife couldn't put in her vacation time until January. By then the good places were gone and rents kept gong up every year. We finally bought with the intentions of renting but we find that we want to be there every weekend. We bought a fixer upper because that's the only way we could afford something with water access. After all the hard work I find it hard to let renters possibly abuse it. Two years and we are still working on it. Once the boat goes in the water the work on the house stops.