I have several family's that want a joint equity vacation home in the hills.

We buy, sell, hold, wholesale, flip, vacation rental, etc and ONLY in the Athens and Oconer market...

I handle year round, short term and weekly vacation homes throughout the whole state.Rumen is correct.

I would clarify those items first:-Target market area-BudgetThen use that to narrow which properties can work best as a vacation rental.

I'm In Miami and I do own vacation rentals which I may say are a better deal than renting on a year lease.

I'm also planning on taking care of many of the items myself through a week of vacation in late January if possible.  

And it's just not for permanent moves,  but for vacation homes as well.

The tax assessment is $180k, and I would say (rennovated) you could ask that, but would actually get closer to $160k because properties in this market tend to sell a good 10-15% below asking after sitting, it's a heavy vacation/2nd home market. 

So if they go on vacation it's not like my tenants have no one to reach out to.

I have had a successful rental property in Big Bear, CA. since April 2014- averaging over 200 nights a year rented. I'm using the usual places: AirBnB, Flipkey and VRBO but was thinking of setting up my own web site a...