0 Shares You don’t have to be on-site to be a great host – It’s all a matter of management When you are a far-away owner, and by that I mean an airplane ride away – not a couple of hours by car – managing a property becomes a whole lot more of a challenge. I spoke about this with Lisa Presley Sedore in episode 2 of the Vacation Rental Success Podcast (VRS002). She ‘manages’ […]
0 Shares 4 Key Steps to Renting Your Vacation Home Without Stress The state of the economy in the last few years has presented a dilemma to many owners who have a vacation home but may not have considered renting out before. For some it has become the only way they can afford to hold onto the family vacation home; for others it’s a way of maintaining […]
0 Shares 15 Tips for Fall and Winter Tasks for Vacation Rental Properties Now the busy season is over for most of us (winter hot spots just ramping up) take stock of the wear and tear of a long summer of rental and spend some time do all those things that tend to get set aside with the busy period of regular changeovers. Here’s just a few tasks […]
0 Shares When Guests are Locked Out – Who is Responsible? I’m always disappointed when I see reporting in the media such as this story from our own Canadian based CTV News. It’s about a couple from British Columbia who rented an apartment in Paris from a private listing on Airbnb. On one day of their vacation they inadvertently locked themselves out of the apartment and […]
0 Shares Keeping Your Guests Cool – Summer Bedding Explained If you have air conditioning your guests will be in control of the temperature within the property, but many places do not have the benefit of AC and it’s therefore important to make sure they will be comfortable sleeping in the heat of the summer. Even with overhead and portable fans, on the hottest of […]
0 Shares Vacation Rental Bedrooms – Quality Counts We spend a third of our lives in bed and this is the same for our vacations. In fact, for many people, a holiday is a time for spending even more time catching up on sleep, having lie-ins, and hopefully luxuriating in comfort with a morning coffee or a good book last thing at night. […]
0 Shares Is An Attitude Adjustment Needed in the Vacation Rental Business? “To the ancient Greeks, hospitality was a divine right. The host was expected to make sure the needs of his guests were seen to. In Greek society a person’s ability to abide the laws to hospitality determined nobility and social standing.” Source: Wikipedia This year clarified a lot for me about the changing nature of […]
0 Shares Dropping the Ball on my own Vacation Rental – A Learning Experience We all love positive reviews don’t we? Most owners I’ve talked with would be unhappy with anything less than five star, and see a lower grade as a severe dent in their stellar record of ‘doing it right’. However much the review sites and experts tell us that it’s always good to get a lower […]
0 Shares 10 Steps to Emergency Preparedness Putting together an emergency plan is one of those things we tend to put off for that day when ‘we’ve got a bit more time’. However, if you are like many people, me included, that day rarely comes, and the next thing you know, a situation arises and we are scrambling around to make it […]
0 Shares How to build an FAQ page No matter how comprehensive your web site or listing is, your potential guests will have questions they want to ask. Often, the answers are already on the listing! Most owners have experienced the frustration of having to respond to emails with information that is already shown on their website. From the perspective of someone looking […]