[Lori4719]

Originally Posted by kfierle

I purchased my home in December 2008 and have been renting it with success since I am not yet retired. I will be eligible to retire in June 2013, but am not sure if that will happen. If things happen the way I hope, this may be the last winter I will rent and then will be using my place to enjoy my retirement. I have been using my place at least once a year to do maintenance and upgrades as this will be my permanent home in the future. I have family in The Villages and a great house watch person that has helped make the rental process very easy.

Can you share who this great house watch person is, also what village are you in?

[kfierle]

Originally Posted by Lori4719

Can you share who this great house watch person is, also what village are you in?

My home is in Bonita and I use Redwitch, from this forum, as my house watch person.

[rjm1cc]

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

Good point. When I rented last month, there were a couple of problems with internet access (the dreaded Comcast) and a problem with the garage door. Fortunately the owner lived only a few minutes away and took care of the problems right away.

I had the same problem and same result.

[Sable99]

My Mom is 88 and doesn't want to move to TV full time. It broke my heart when I decided the best way for me to go was to put my brand new Iris in the Village of Charlotte on the long term, unfurnished rental program with JD & V Property Management in May.

I think my home was on their website for two days when it was rented.

[ijusluvit]

[QUOTE=asianthree;520398]yes there are some who check the wrong box when first starting out,(pool) but most owners live here or have a home watch person who takes care of the check-in and out and stops by weekly to see how they are doing. Two bad posts out of over a 1000 homes for rent is not a bad ratio. Using the wrong property manager can be your biggest nightmare for you and your home. you will find many who swear by thevillages4rent and their homewatch person, who watches homes like they were their own[/QUOTE/


I don't know if you have an interest in the 4rent company, but you can't dismiss stuff by simply saying someone "checked the wrong box". Intentional or not, it's FRADULENT for owners to list amenities they don't have. Homes with pools rent for more than those which do not. What does the renter do if they show up and there is no pool? And it's obvious the website does no oversight to verify with owners that their homes ARE AS advertised. And the fact that this website will not advertise homes which have a property manager invites problems for prospective renters. What does the renter do about questions and problems if the owner's living or vacationing elsewhere?

I rent my home when I'm not there. I have a terrific property manager who handles every detail, and is FULLY LICENSED. This GUARANTEES the renter recourse if anything is out of order from the date of reservation to the prompt return of the security deposit. Independent owners who rent are NOT licensed, so guests with problems are on their own.

I am proud of the fact that I can rent my home and be certain that my guests have everything they need. It's great to get rave reviews in our guestbook, and to have a full calendar of reservations.

[cappyjon431]

We live in TV full time, but are planning on spending several months back in Panama each winter down the road (primarily to escape the cold but also to avoid some of the more crowded times in TV). I strongly considered putting our home up for rent when we are overseas, but my wife told me, "absolutely not!" So when the time comes, we'll be looking for someone to watch our home.

[kfeasel54]

I was just speaking with, I believe is your property manager, Vilas. She will be managing my new home in Sanibel. After talking with her just 2 times I am very confident that she will take good care of my home. Thank you for recommending her...

[asianthree]

[quote=ijusluvit;520685]

Originally Posted by asianthree

yes there are some who check the wrong box when first starting out,(pool) but most owners live here or have a home watch person who takes care of the check-in and out and stops by weekly to see how they are doing. Two bad posts out of over a 1000 homes for rent is not a bad ratio. Using the wrong property manager can be your biggest nightmare for you and your home. you will find many who swear by thevillages4rent and their homewatch person, who watches homes like they were their own[/QUOTE/


I don't know if you have an interest in the 4rent company, but you can't dismiss stuff by simply saying someone "checked the wrong box". Intentional or not, it's FRADULENT for owners to list amenities they don't have. Homes with pools rent for more than those which do not. What does the renter do if they show up and there is no pool? And it's obvious the website does no oversight to verify with owners that their homes ARE AS advertised. And the fact that this website will not advertise homes which have a property manager invites problems for prospective renters. What does the renter do about questions and problems if the owner's living or vacationing elsewhere?

I rent my home when I'm not there. I have a terrific property manager who handles every detail, and is FULLY LICENSED. This GUARANTEES the renter recourse if anything is out of order from the date of reservation to the prompt return of the security deposit. Independent owners who rent are NOT licensed, so guests with problems are on their own.

I am proud of the fact that I can rent my home and be certain that my guests have everything they need. It's great to get rave reviews in our guestbook, and to have a full calendar of reservations.

no investment in thevillages4rent, and the fully licensed property manager who DID handle my home had $1800 dollars worth of my property taken from my home, left the home so filthy that we had to have our own cleaning company come in for 6 hours to clean the dirt in the tubs the food left in the fridge from renter that had left 2 months earlier. It was finally admitted that they forgot to check the house after the renters left,( got an email every week that the house was fine, just forgot to stop there) so i no longer use a Fully Licensed company, not saying that there are not good companies out there but i am not the only person who had big problems with a company. My homewatch person cares for my home like her own, our guest have everything they need and the best thing i can say is all of my guests have bought their own homes because they love it here, and they now use my homewatch person, because she was one of the best features of our home, I don't use a guestbook, because we see all of our guest every time we come down, we are rented for the next three years from friends of people who have stayed at our home.

[lovsthosebigdogs]

We came down for a LSV and fell in love. Couldn't leave without buying a house even though we wouldn't retire for 4 years. It made no sense really but we were so in love with TV we had to buy the house we saw. Long story short, we bought it, found a property manager and rented it out unfurnished. So far so good. All I have to do is pay the monthly bill and try to forget my longing to BE in TV already. The first few months were extremely painful but it's getting easier and it sort of feels unreal that we really own the house now. I don't know how we gave in to this impulse buy on something we can't really use for so long but it'll be waiting for us when we can move down. So far so good on the rental and we just have to hope that it stays rented until we are ready to move. In retrospect I guess we should have waited. I don't know if we are making or losing money, and frankly I don't WANT to know because we are in the middle of it and we aren't selling. My head is in the sand and I'm happy to keep it there for now.