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Originally Posted by Michael G.
No, in fact I think that's great to be healthy enough to travel and maintain two houses.
We thought about being a snowbirds at one time, but my wife didn't think much of the
idea having someone watch our house in Wisconsin and removing the snow in our driveway all season.
When we rented 5 years ago in TV, our sump pump failed up north and we came
home to 6" of water in our basement and lost a lot of personal stuff.
My neighbor checked the house Friday morning, rain all day on Friday, and didn't notice the mess until Saturday morning.
Wife said that's enough, chose were you want to live full time.
Have a safe trip regardless if you fly or drive.
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My wife and I have actually talked about doing it in reverse. Dunno how well it would work (probably a year-by-year thing) but as I've discovered to my surprise that as I actually love the summers down here, we talked about renting the place out for Jan. Feb. and Mar., and using that time to travel. We have a lot of friends and family along the southern tier of states (Florida panhandle, Texas, Arizona, Nevada) and cruising is opening up again, so it does seem to make some sense. Plus the rental income from renting those three months means that we'd have some significant playing-around money as well.