<prompt> Human: First time posting here, im an 18 year old senior in high school and i was curious what to do in this situation. My family and i are planning to move within the next year, into a house worth about double of what ours costs right now. We dont have the funds yet but my mom was given ownership of two houses in Italy previously owned by my grandmother, and theyre worth 200,000 collectively. The problem is that one of them is vacant, and hasnt been lived in for about 4 years, and we dont know the status of it. The other is being lived in by a cousin of my grandmother, but she isnt paying anything to us to live there, and we barely keep in touch with her. Im really not sure on what to do here, should we try to rent the houses out? sell them? evict my grandmas cousin? the main problem is that theyre in Italy so we are unsure of how international real estate works.  <response>: I rent out a property overseas in Europe. Here is my perspective:1. You have to rent the properties out and have a rental income from them every month2. To do so, you have to fly out there and find a rental management company that will do so3. We found a large national property management company -- Sure they did not know the local city market as much, but they had excellent record in collecting rent, legaltax team to help, background checks and keeping records4. Cant emphasize enough on collecting rent every month5. Dont let tenants pay some things like property taxes, yearly city assessment, only have tenants pay their own utilities electric, water, phone etc. Again this is something property management company would go over with you.6. Right now the real estate in Italy is somewhat slow to sell, unless you would be giving a really good deal. 