To JAX then PHX

26 July 2017

In the morning we finished prepping the boat and packing for our trip back to AZ. We called an Uber to the Jacksonville airport because we were unable to rent a car one way from the little burg of Brunswick. It was surprisingly competitive. We had been using Uber a lot in Florida with good results.

We got to the airport and did the usual things. Chelsea picked us up at Sky Harbor and drove us to the house, where the Land Cruiser started right up after months of inaction. We drove down the street to an AirBnB, someone's nice little one bedroom apartment, since Chelsea's roommates had paid through the end of the month. I had decided to try out a few of these for various reason. It seemed pretty cost effective, but also I was curious about the whole process. We're thinking of converting the Scottsdale condo from a straight lease to a vacation rental.

The vacation rental idea was appealing for multiple reasons. We really didn't think we would be spending so much time in the southwest during the holidays, but flying back and forth didn't seem to make a lot of sense either. If we could block off the condo for a few weeks during the holidays and still at least break even during the rest of the year that would be handy. So we were looking at the process from the other side first.

The apartment was nice enough, but it wasn't tough to visualize the condo being at least as nice, given its location, the improvements we have made, its own parking and a view of the pool. We might be able to make this work next year for the holidays after the current lease is up. We had two nights there, then we moved on to another AirBnB.

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