As a friends girlfriend once said at an aviation dinner:
If you can fly it, float it or **** it, rent it!
We had a second home for years that we didn't rent out. I used it a few weeks a year. As it was in FL. I paid for every thing, lawn care, taxes, utilities, and when I was there everyone else had a vacation while I was the maintenance man. That was on a new house
It cost me even more when I sold it on a down market, about 20 years ago.
We also had a few single family homes that had people managing for us. On half of them we did ok, the other half we lost money on. Any problems we handled by contractors, and the agency likely had 200 other rentals, so we were small fish to them. Owning a rental that you are too far away to manage didn't work for us.
Now when we go for a week or a few months, we rent a house. When we walk out the door, I'm done paying. The cost is about 90% less per year. We rent one as good as we had. I use VRBO & Cragslist as well as other sites that rent. We have only had one bad experience with them over the years.