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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4319938, member: 1414"] Fortunately, I've done that. My wife's parents had a place in Vermont. They became infirm and it became ours. Complete with all those headaches. We had a flood come in through the bathroom window (house built into the mountain), that cost us $30k in repairs, including mold mitigation. Thank God the Pandemic allowed us to sell it to a couple from Brooklyn without taking a loss. It be a substantial amount of work. I'm semi-handy. Can do light plumbing (toilets, sinks), and some other things, yardwork. In places like coastal RI and the Cape there are management companies that handle the rental emergencies. Distance matters[U] a lot[/U]. The place in Vermont was 3.5 hours on a good day, much more with Friday traffic. The closest Home Depot was an hour away. Everything in VT is expensive. That made it really hard to manage things like delivery of furniture. But I can get to Falmouth, where we are looking on the Cape, in under an hour (except Friday PM and Saturday AM). Much more manageable. I'm guessing you'd be about an hour+ to RI, right? Doable. Toilets, sinks and vanities are cheap and easy to do yourself and it's fairly rewarding. Anybody can spackle walls and paint. [/QUOTE]