I guess I was out of my mind when I bought a cabin to get away for family vacations.
The thing is, my family members never even wanted to visit the cabin.
We went just one time and I had a new HVAC system installed with a UV air purification system. The fireplace in the cabin is nice and you couldn’t go wrong with ideal temperature control settings. My wife didn’t like having to cook over the fireplace or the woodburning stove. I told her we could always upgrade to an electric stove but she said that was okay. After that first visit to the cabin, nobody wanted to go back. It would only be me to go make sure everything was in good condition and to provide maintenance to the HVAC system. The thing is, the HVAC system was never really used unless I was there checking on everything. When I would visit the cabin, I would notice that the air quality was bad, but that was only because I didn’t want to run the UV air purification system all the time. And what was the point of having fantastic air quality if nobody was spending any time at the cabin. Then I had the idea to rent the cabin out and maybe get some money back. I’m glad I thought about this because the cabin became a big hit. It’s funny because when my family learned that other people were enjoying the cabin and they read the reviews, suddenly they wanted to go back and visit the cabin more often! I’m just happy that they head out to the cabin these days at least twice per year when it’s not being rented out.