Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment (Paperback)

~ Christine Karpinski (Author) "Get ready for this uniquely hybrid venture that combines the romantic idea of owning your own vacation home with that of renting it out to..." (more)
Key Phrases: Reviewing Your Financing Options, Advertising Your Rental Property, New York (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Business (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419506919
• ISBN-13: 978-1419506918
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #195,948 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly the same as her first book - Don't buy both, August 29, 2006

By	M. Cook (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know, September 16, 2005

By	Gerri Detweiler "Ultimate Credit Solutions Inc." (Gulf Coast, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Same as previous book, just as weak, July 31, 2007

By	Duke of Spack "RockMan" (San Rafael, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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!