Ever since inflation levels went through the roof earlier this year, I have been keeping my money under lock and key trying to afford the cost of living. And since I had to use credit cards for a few major purchases that occurred as unexpected emergencies, I’m stuck making credit card payments as well. But my second home quickly became a money pit that I couldn’t sustain. How can you justify owning a vacation home when you can barely afford the taxes on your primary home? This is surely not what I expected to happen back before the pandemic started as I was dreaming of slowly getting involved in the real estate market. Meeting a failing realtor who was living paycheck to paycheck is what convinced me that I didn’t want to sell homes for a career. Instead, I just used the extra money to get a vacation home that I would use myself. Now that I can’t afford the vacation home or the taxes for it, I am ready to sell my house but without a realtor involved. I don’t want to pay the closing costs for the house if I get a realtor involved, so I’m inevitably trying to sell my house fast for cash. I finally found signs advertising a cash home buyer who would buy any house sold without a realtor or something that is off market. We negotiated the price on my vacation home before I finally sold the house fast for cash to the interested buyer. He buys lots of homes for cash throughout the year and then renovates them for cheap before selling them for a small profit. With enough of these cash home purchases, he makes a decent living.