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| Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment | 
 enlarge | Author: Christine Karpinski
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 444843
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1419506919
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.63243
EAN: 9781419506918
ASIN: 1419506919
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream: The Complete Guide to a Savvy Financial and Emotional Investment July 28, 2008
This book gave me a lot of tips that as a first time second home/vacation rental buyer I found to be very helpful.
 Same as previous book, just as weak July 31, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!
Perfect for first timers July 28, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great read if you are thinking of buying or have just purchased a second home.
-wintergreenrentalsonline
 Dream trips February 22, 2007
Great way to make money and enjoy life. I also enjoyed the book titled, "World Ventures, Wayne Nugent, Mike Azcue, Dan Stammen, Robert Oblon, Wesley Melcher, Marc Accetta."
 Mostly the same as her first book - Don't buy both August 30, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
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!
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