I have been working in the real estate industry my entire life  from advising others to taking care of our own real estate.  Home Fridays is an extension of services that I was in need of – someone to take care of the house so you wouldn’t have to spend your vacation doing chores.  My husband bought a second home in Bend, Oregon and all the sudden I found myself responsible for yet another piece of real estate.  It was far away from our home and we spent far too many visits working on the house – instead of enjoying the area.  When we moved here full time, we know that a large number of people faced our same frustrations.  And so Home Fridays was started to help those absentee owners.  After all it is called a ‘vacation home’ not a ‘spend your weekend working.’  This blog is a compilation of the lessons learned and lots of the funny stories about what we find in the day to day life of second home management.