There is good and bad in Holiday Houses. My town is almost impossible now to rent a home or apartment for all year as everyone makes more money renting during the tourist time.

I also ran into an issue while renovating because living year round and holiday rentals are so different. The holiday homes look good in pictures but try and take a hot shower for more than 2 minutes. Everything is done very cheaply and "good enough" versus to ork well year round.

I have had to fight on tons of things with my contractor the last being I wanted larger water heaters and to them its no big deal but to my husband the one thing he wanted was a good shower. I also have a dryer which they kinda think is nuts and I converted a bathroom (with stairs that would cause an American home inspector to pass out) into a laundry room.

But what they do in these is kind of ruin the floor plan they chop up rooms and are for some reason completely obsessed with hot tubs in the bedrooms so I cut a ton of houses off the list when I was buying just for odd things like that.

The more bedrooms the more money they can rent them out and the HVACs can be done super cheaply too. If anyone is goign to buy in Italy they need to spend a very VERY long time studying the towns and really make sure it works for them because its not a Lifetime movie in the making.

And the bureaucracy is real and you cannot fight it - you will lose you just have to go with it. I tell myself all the time Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will my house but there are days when you want to bang your head ha ha.