When I first went to college, I registered, paid, bought a plane ticket to Minneapolis and arrived on campus having never set foot there (or in Minnesota for that matter). It was a little silly for sure, but I knew I wanted to attend there and nothing was going to change my mind. In the case of my college choice, it fulfilled all of my "must haves" and most of my "nice to haves". Were I buying a house, my confidence would have been on the same level.
In our current (mildly insane-but slowly getting better) global climate, buying a home site unseen is becoming more common. While working over in Lincoln, we had a handful of people purchase condos never having stepped foot in them. For a ski condo, I think that is a little less risky. You are basically buying a place to recreate a few times (weekends) a year. I read once that th...