green night
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We're in our mid 40s and believe that I'll work another couple years and my wife will work another 7 years (most will half time) as a school teacher. So, we'll both have summers off to travel or do whatever beginning in 2 or 3 years. We live in michigan and do not enjoy the winters too much. Summers are great though.
The plan in 7 years or so is to live 9 1/2 months a year in our full time residence.
Take two weeks each summer and spend it in northern michigan on one of the big lakes. I know this rental market pretty well ... roughly $5K for those two weeks.
We would spend January and March in two separate warm weather climates. We would drive to florida in a beach setting for one of those weeks. And the other could be in Mexico, Florida or off the beach and go someplace else in the U.S. We would be targeting to 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms condo. I'm not sure how much to budget but I'm thinking in today's dollars, we should put aside $12K ($6K each).
Questions -- We like smaller beach towns and places on or across the street from the beach. We can do the larger cities as well ... clearwater, foyt meyers, Cocoa Beach, are all ok. Love fishing towns with small downtowns, etc. Any thoughts on cheaper rental areas of florida?
Thoughts on the plan? Anyone try this type of strategy? Pros / Cons?
TIA
The plan in 7 years or so is to live 9 1/2 months a year in our full time residence.
Take two weeks each summer and spend it in northern michigan on one of the big lakes. I know this rental market pretty well ... roughly $5K for those two weeks.
We would spend January and March in two separate warm weather climates. We would drive to florida in a beach setting for one of those weeks. And the other could be in Mexico, Florida or off the beach and go someplace else in the U.S. We would be targeting to 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms condo. I'm not sure how much to budget but I'm thinking in today's dollars, we should put aside $12K ($6K each).
Questions -- We like smaller beach towns and places on or across the street from the beach. We can do the larger cities as well ... clearwater, foyt meyers, Cocoa Beach, are all ok. Love fishing towns with small downtowns, etc. Any thoughts on cheaper rental areas of florida?
Thoughts on the plan? Anyone try this type of strategy? Pros / Cons?
TIA