Renting your home to strangers for money wasn't even on the horizon when my husband and I bought our first house almost 20 years ago.
I thought renting our house to race-goers would be an easy way to make a quick paycheck.
We were early Airbnb adoptersIt didn't go well at first, though, with our first guests writing us a bad check.
Courtesy of the auhorAlthough it's commonplace now, in those early days, friends thought we'd lost it when we let strangers stay in our house.
A beautiful house that just needed some work, with a third floor guest suite and a carriage house, it had tons of potential as a short-term rental rental.
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Louisville , Kentucky, Vertigo Louisville, Detroit, Louisville