Vacation Homes For Rent

          Vacation Homes for Rent

               It is a unique way to stay and play in the Santa Cruz Vacation Rentals Homes today! Enjoy the comforts of staying in a home away from home, with world-famous theme parks right in your backyard! Home to the largest inventory of vacation home rentals in Florida, Santa Cruz is the perfect place to plan your vacation.

                Certainly more space is the most obvious reason to rent. Many Santa Cruz Vacation offer 2-bedroom or 3-bedroom floor plans complete with a full-size kitchen. And some luxury vacation homes can offer as many as 6 or 7 bedrooms, making them a perfect option for extended families enjoying a vacation together, for family reunions, or perhaps a group of friends sharing a golfing, shopping or spa weekend.

                 But beyond just space, most Santa Cruz Vacation Rentals feature all of the comforts of home-and sometimes more-such as a beautiful lakefront setting complete with pool, game room, and flat-screen TV's throughout. Plus some rentals are pet-friendly, so that you can bring all of the members of the family with you to join in the fun.

7 Tips for Buying a Santa Cruz Vacation Rental Homes are:

1. Choose the Location Carefully:

                This may sound obvious, but before you start shopping you need to be able to specify why exactly you want this second home. If the main purpose is for you and your loved ones to gather together and enjoy the house as a family, you'll need it to be in an area that is easily accessible for everyone.

2. Rent before You Purchase:

                If you plan to eventually move to the home full-time, as one-third of buyers do, you may decide a house outside of town is actually too lonely and inconvenient. Only 32% of vacation homes purchased last year were in a small town or rural locale.

3. Buy Under Your Budget:

                Don’t fall into the trap of purchasing a property that is a stretch to afford. Buying a house with too high of monthly carrying costs causes stress, and most people go on vacation to get away from troubles.

4. Be Realistic about How Often You'll Use It:

                 Be realistic when you make assumptions about how often you'll actually be able to use the place. You may be better off working out a rental agreement with an owner in the area to use his or her place two or three times a year- and forget about the place when you're not there.

5. Understand the Tax Implications:

                 Don't assume you know what the tax consequences of owning that property will be, based on your experience with your primary residence. Second homes can be more complicated.

6. Make a Conservative Estimate of Rental Income:

                Most buyers tend to be overly optimistic about how often they'll rent out the place. Talk to a local vacation rental agency about how many weeks of the year you can realistically expect demand. For example, even in a winter and summer destination such as Lake Tahoe you can't expect to fill the place every month of the year.

7. Don’t Get Caught Up in the Moment:

                If a friend, family member or another investor brings you an opportunity to buy a vacation home, or to acquire land with aspirations of building a grand home, don't let yourself be easily persuaded. The proposal can sound romantic but quickly turn into a horror story. Sometimes people have alternative motives. Other times they haven't actually done their homework to uncover that the so-called deal isn't really a good one.