My Aunt did so many years ago and came back to find the house trashed. My sister did a few years ago and had to give up her job abroad because the rent didn't get paid and the Agent was taking money but not sorting the problems. Houses needed completely re-decorating in both cases.
If you are planning on letting it out : you will need to decide which stuff to keep, whether to sell/store things, put photos onto Disc for safe keeping - all furniture has to be fire retardant and have the labels on to say so! and how about Insuracne? Our friends let their property 'empty' for 6 months at a time.
Might be better to decide why you want to, go along to a few Letting Agents for a discussion about the whys and wherefores.
I did think about putting our stuff into storage, selling other stuff then taking off across the UK - renting places for 4/6 months so that we could really get to know our beautiful country. However, I would miss our garden/pond so much
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