jeffmete
Recycles dryer sheets
That's my issue too. We're looking at winters in a warmer place than Michigan so it it nearly 2000 miles making popping in on the second home on a weekend for maintenance impossible as well as undesirable. We're trying rentals this year. I hadn't considered buying many weeks of time shares as RetiredHappy has done. Many tradeoffs to balance.
We are also in Michigan and a couple years ago sold our “up north” lake place and bought an ocean front condo in Saint Augustine. We rent it may through September, which pays all expenses (taxes, hoa, etc) plus a little extra as summer is prime rental time in northern florida. We come and go when we feel winter is too much. It’s not as warm in January as southern Florida, but compared to here, it’s great to be out in just a sweat shirt. It also gives the kids a free place for spring break!