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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Ask a Mustachian => Topic started by: greenmimama on February 13, 2015, 09:47:02 AM
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This last weekend we had our first time renting our place out to 3 couples for 2 nights, while we were away in New Orleans for a business/pleasure trip.
We came home to a pretty clean house, they even ran the dishwasher, stripped at least one of the beds and took the trash out, all things I didn't really expect them to do.
They jacked the heat up to 70, which was dissapointing, since we would keep it around 55 when we aren't home and only around 58-60 when we are here, I did put it up to 65 for them so they wouldn't be freezing, but I programmed it to go back down after they left, I was sad I didn't do it right or they accidentally overrode it.
But all in all a great experience, our bank account has $412 in it now from that experience.
I am hoping to rent it out again a few times.
I have had to turn 3 people down because they wanted to book out too far in advance, we are going to put the house up for sale soon and I can't book it when we don't know if we will be here. If we do end up staying here, I can see this as being a great way to pay the mortgage :)
So any of you that have done this, please tell me your stories.