She shifted to sales, hawking "vacation ownership" by telephone on commission.
Sales of vacation properties fell nearly 31percentt in 2007 from the previous year, according to the National Association of Realtors.
As the government battles the drug cartels amid daily reports of carnage, sales of vacation homes are down 40 to 50 percent from their peak in 2007, some developers say.
Yet even some year-round residents of resort communities are beginning to agree with summer people that the law should bend to the reality of an increasingly affluent nation where sales of vacation homes continue to soar.
And the sales of vacation homes rose to 1.02 million, up almost 20% from the 850,000 sold in 2003.
The templates include checklists of attributes specific to, say, dogs for sale or vacation rentals.
Kayak plans to expand the flash sale to vacation packages and flights, and to integrate it with the company's iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.
While FinCEN has said that it does not intend to regulate purchasers and sellers of their own homes, some wonder whether the regulations might go so far as to cover lease transactions or the sale of vacation homes.
But they also realize that first they have to learn if their bounty, usually discovered in a backyard, at a garage sale, on vacation or simply in the streets, is authentic.
EscapeHomes, which was started several years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area by Clark Thompson, is organized so buyers can search by either the kind of community they want to join, such as golf, beach or ski towns; by home type, including time shares, homes for sale or vacation rentals; or by location.
