Originally Posted by will dehne
It is supply and demand. It is a buyers market at this time. There is no area without homes for sale and rent. The Realtors all have lists of homes for rent. They rather sell but what to do if you can't?
BTW, we had a nice motel, on the bike trail, big room, balcony looking over the bike trail, small kitchen area, all for $60.-/night.
Google has vacation homes for rent and so do Realtors.
Good points, Will. Your lodging in FL was around $ 1800 - 2000 for the month or about that?
I'm figuring that if we can budget around 2 grand for a month's stay, there are LOTS of places we can visit during retirement. Not that I've got 2 grand laying around anywhere accessible at this moment but hopefully when all 3 kids are finished with college and our mortgage is down a bit closer to the finish and our expenses are stabilized with just the two of us then yes, we can budget that kind of cost at least once a year.
What I've learned from international travel is that the longer I stay, the less expensive the trip can become on a per diem cost because lodging for a month is usually cheaper than the 3-day or 7-day rental. Also if airfare is factored in, the cost of the travel relative to the rest of the trip costs is reduced. A 5-week trip to Germany costs me less than a 1-week trip, a semester's teaching abroad is cheaper than 5 weeks teaching... of course that means establishing a base and working out from there, not staying in a different place every few nights but that is our preferred way to visit a place anyway.
Not trying to stray OT, but responding to the idea that one has to retire 'TO' some place for good.