As Landlords of 2 houses in a seaside, holiday town. We don't chase the holiday peeps. We actually encourage them to sign for 3yrs (well actually I think its 35mths). Because it costs them and us every time a new agreement has to be taken out.
Being remote Landlords we have agents and they visit and report as part of the deal. We fix everything that is listed, (you would fix it if it was your own house wouldn't you?)
Thing is those chasing rents are often chasing mortgage payments, We are not, We prefer long term.
Yes we have had 1 bad tenant but that's the deposit system and the letting agents so We weren't out of pocket (except for a few months rent cos it wasn't rented).
There are some good landlords and tenants out there.
We are now in 8yrs on 1 and 4yrs on the other which is sadly coming up this year at the tenants request to leave.
Oh and
@gstuart dont be too worried about the no pets policy its a standard line in a tenancy agreement, if you ask they may likely accept a small pet, we have accepted cats and small dogs, May lose deposit on leaving for cleaning purposes though.
J