0 Shares 6 Comments Vacation Rental Owners Want to Hear Getting positive reviews should be one of the primary goals of your business. Prospective guests love to read reviews and hear what other guests have said about their stay in your vacation rental property. They can be hard to come by though, but when you do get them, treasure each one and shout it from the rooftops!
0 Shares 20 Ways to Make a Difference to Your Rental Guests In these heady days of social networking, if someone experiences something negative they will shout it out to the world and in many cases, much of the world will hear. One video posted on You Tube, a photo on Facebook, or a 140 character review on Twitter could be quite damaging to your reputation. On […]
0 Shares Can’t Sell? – Then Reap The Benefits of Vacation Rental The UK Times Online has addressed the issue of second home ownership in its article Strangers in Paradise. This mirrors the difficulties cottage owners are facing here in Ontario as the demand for purchasing vacation properties falls off. This is exactly what I was talking about with Seamus O’Reagan on the Canada AM Show […]
0 Shares Rent By Owner or Use A Rental Agency – Your First Decision When I bought my first rental property in Canada, I was still living in the UK, but didn’t even think of asking a third party to manage the rentals. I wanted to do it myself, and I am glad I did because what I learnt from buying that cottage, and the five that followed […]
0 Shares Being Pet Friendly May Bring More Bookings If you are already feeling the pinch with your vacation rental bookings then maybe you should be considering accepting pets. Our own stats show that over 60% of enquiries this year have been from guests who want to bring their pets on vacation, and the bulk of our current bookings are in pet friendly properties. […]
0 Shares 10 Keys To Vacation Rental Success – A New Owners Guide Vacation home owners are facing challenges if they need to sell. Many are turning to rental as an alternative to having a property on the listings for many months. There are a large number of owners choosing this route because they have either tried selling, or are not prepared to lower their asking price and […]
0 Shares Disaster Planning or When City Dwellers Come to Cottage Country! Now we are in the grip of winter here in Ontario’s cottage country, my mind turned this morning to all the things that could go wrong with my upcoming rentals. Since we installed the hot tub, bookings for out of season breaks took off – we have folks going into the cottage today for a […]
0 Shares Are You Giving Your Guests A Safe Night’s Sleep? I read a post on the Traveling Mamas blog this morning that was a chilling reminder of how lack of attention to safety issues can have horrifying consequences. A family of four from Denver on a vacation in an Aspen rented home, all died from carbon monoxide poisoning. They were found dead in their beds […]
0 Shares They’re Back! Are Bed Bugs Heading For Your Cottage? Just over a year ago I wrote a post on bed bugs and it has been one of the most-read posts on the blog. Since then the issue has raised its scaly head again with headlines such as "Bed Bug Epidemic Hits Toronto" and "Toronto’s bed bug infestation getting worse" just in the past few […]
0 Shares What’s In A Property Name? With so many new vacation rental properties being listed for rent, it’s fun to look at the names and to give some thought as to the impact a name may have on a potential renter. Names tend to fall into clearly defined brackets. There are the animal names: Beaver Creek Cottage; Moosewood; Squirrel’s Leap; fishy […]
