Product Description

Vacation properties are not just for the elite and wealthy!

If you were a rich man… Stop right there! Just because you’re not rich doesn’t mean you don’t want a second home to get away from life, as you know it. Whether you dream of living on the beach with sand between your toes or getting away from civilization in a mountain cabin, you don’t have to be a Rockefeller to enjoy your dream home.

In Profit From Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment, vacation home buying expert Christine Hrib Karpinski shows you how to not only make your vacation home dream a reality, but to get others to pay your mortgage when you’re not enjoying your home away from home. By renting your vacation home using Karpinski’s recipe for successful vacation home ownership, you will soon be on the road to buying, enjoying and profiting from your second, third – and even fourth home.

Karpinski will show you how to:
· Evaluate the different types of vacation properties and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each.
· Determine how many weeks you need to rent your home and how much you can charge to break even.
· Become a master at managing real estate transactions – from negotiating the purchase price to maintaining the property – from the comfort of your hometown.
· Determine if renting-by-owner or working with a property management company is right for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341124 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-01
• Released on: 2005-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"...the book provides a reminder that it takes considerable work to make a vacation home work for you." -- -- Lee Stratton, The Columbus Dispatch

"The real world outtakes help separate this book from others that provide little more than financial formulas." -- ALQ Real Estate Intelligence Report

"This "owner's manual" for vacation-home owners who want to earn rental income...would be hard to improve upon." -- Robert Bruss, Nationally Syndicated Columnist

From the Author
I never thought I’d actually write a second book after laboring so hard with my first one, How to Rent Vacation Properties By Owner. Writing books can be like giving birth to your first child-I’m told that after you’ve gone through the experience of a first child, you might as well have another so you can apply all you’ve learned to your secondborn.

Because my husband and I were blessed with only one child, Zachary, my "secondborn" is this book: Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment. I wanted to put to good use the expertise, resources, and experience I’ve gained since the publication of my first book. I have met and learned from many more people in the vacation property business and have purchased more vacation properties myself.

How to Rent Vacation Properties By Owner was successful be­cause it helped people manage their vacation properties-and perhaps persuaded shy ones to venture out. This book contains even more pertinent information, such as:
· Where to search for vacation properties
· What type of investment property is right for you
· How to find a good real estate agent
· How to finance your second home
· What are good strategies for managing your vacation rental property and the people who help you maintain it

I hope you turn to this book as a primer to help you decipher the nuances of the information you gather and the decisions you’re about to make.

About the Author
Christine Hrib Karpinski is the author of How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment. Her books, combined with her seminars, media appearances, and Web site (HowToRentByOwner.com) have helped thousands of people purchase and manage their vacation homes. When she’s not teaching, writing, or taking care of her family, Christine creates pottery in a studio, sings in her church choir, and relaxes on the beach at any one of her many vacation homes in Florida. She resides in Woodstock, Georgia, with her husband Tom, son Zachary, and two dogs, Trumpet and Piccolo.

Customer Reviews

Mostly the same as her first book - Don't buy both
Having read Christine's first book "How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner," I was pleased to find that she had written another. After reading the Amazon description, the author's bio and the acknowledgements in the front of the book, I was sure that it was a sequel to the first book. Amazon even has a co-marketing deal where you can buy both books.

I was greatly disappointed to find that most of the info in the book - down to the examples and quotes she uses - came straight out of the first book. Many of these were word-for-word. There's a few new ideas, but this really should have been marketed as a 2nd edition of "How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner" than as her second book.

In fairness to Christine, I have to say that the content of the book is still great. I just wish it wasn't a near replica of the first!

Everything you need to know
I do want to buy a vacation rental in another part of the country, but I have a lot of questions and reservations about how to handle it. Then I received a copy of Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream. The publisher asked me to interview the author on my radio show, EverydayWealth Radio (you can listen to the interview with Christine about the book. [...]

The book and the author were both great! It's clear she knows what she is talking about, and so far I have found a helpful answer to every question I've thought of. I am now in the process of identifying the area and type of vacation home to buy. The book is also interspersed with examples of real life stories of good and bad experiences.

I recommend it!

Same as previous book, just as weak
This book is as weak as the last book. Unfortunately, my wife bought both of her books without reading the reviews. Big mistake...
I read the book and it was basically a re-hash of her old book. It looks like she has quite a marketing arm behind her now though, as she is working for one of the big vacation rental websites now. Go figure. I guess they are making her publish the same junk, but with their spin on it. I also noticed that all of the super positive reviews for this book seem pretty fake and contrived. Watch out!