[alistairSH]

100% this.

My parents had a beach house for a while. It was rented May-Sept every year. They'd visit for a week in each shoulder season, spend half the time doing major cleaning/fixing, and left the day-to-day during rental season to a management company (same one that managed bookings for the house).

It wasn't 100% passive, but it was about as close as you can get as a retired upper-middle-class couple.

[broken-kebab]

>100% this >wasn't 100% passive

Apparently it's not passive, then. It's a seasonal job essentially.

[alistairSH]

Sure but not “a lot of work” as nradov suggested above. And they could have outsourced that as well, but at some point it made sense to do some light maintenance while they were on-site.