DENVER, N.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — Even on a rainy day like Monday, a view on Lake Norman just doesn’t get old.
“We love our home,” said Eileen Dean. “Even though we don’t live there, we spend a lot of time maintaining it. Our families are up there several times a month.”
Eileen and her husband Casey bought their home on Lake Norman knowing the economics of their purchase would require them to rent it out. It was their chance to live out their dream of owning a waterfront property.
“Right now, it doesn’t make sense,” she told Queen City News. “We both work full-time jobs, and he has like two jobs that he’s working, actually, so to make it work, we can’t be living there.”
They rent it out on websites Airbnb and VRBO, and their story of why and how they own this short-term rental isn’t out of the ordinary, but what was once an easy person-to-person rental opportunity for many has become a delicate balance of keeping neighbors happy and letting renters enjoy their vacation.