RED
HOUSE
by Susan Covington. Illustration by Carolyn Brown Zniewski.
I
have a vacation and rental home in
beautiful, magnificent Big Bend.
Pinch me - how in the world did
that happen? A few years ago I started
looking for a home in the Big Bend
area where I plan to retire in a few
16
years. I figured if I took my time, I
could find the perfect place – and I did!
Amazingly, this happened a few years
earlier than I anticipated and after
buying The Little Red House, I real-
ized using it as a vacation rental to
Cenizo
Third Quarter 2017
cover annual expenses until I retired
might just possibly be a brilliant idea.
What an entirely new experience! Red
House is so much fun, I wish I’d
bought it years ago!
Mind you, managing a property
when I live a good nine-hour drive
away is not the easiest thing to juggle
and I could not manage without my
wonderful local caretakers, Tom and
Klemie. They make sure the water is
dripping when the temperature drops,