I bought a holiday house in the deep south & encourage our parents to use it whenever they want.
It’s only a few miles away from their condo, so it’s right on the water & has a pool as well.
Honestly it’s entirely the nicest place for entertaining guests between our numerous homes & our parents. Even though I only get to visit out there a handful of times each year, our dad correctly checks on things to make sure there are no complications or sudden plumbing leaks or electrical complications. Putting in surveillance cams entirely helped too because I can get a visual of the entire interior by just pulling out our smartphone. However, I was actually quite fortunate when an unforeseen issue occurred on one of our few trips to our beach condo. I was running the a/c quite a bit because it was July & one day I saw water forming on the stone floor beneath the air handler closet. The very first thing I did was shut the a/c off & call the Heating & Air Conditioning corporation. They informed me it was entirely a clogged condensate line, but the inspection would determine the exact cause, and the cellphone representative at the heating & cooling contractor was correct, apparently the condensate line had become clogged from algae growth. I was incredibly lucky that it happened while I was house because I caught it right before any nastyy water damage occurred. I l received our lesson & will entirely scrub out our condensate line at least once or even twice a year. The Heating & Air Conditioning contractor ultimately signed me up for a heating & cooling repair contract which includes cleaning out the condensate line to prevent future clogs.