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 traveling. 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!
