0 Shares Gadgets to Manage Your Rental Remotely This guest post is by Beth Stockwell at the Home Away Community. Though some owners and property managers live reasonably close to their vacation rentals, there are many that live a long drive, or even a flight, away. Rest assured that in today’s technologically advanced world, there are so many gadgets that can help […]
0 Shares Warm up Your Winter Vacation Rental Marketing Christmas is over; 2013 is fast approaching and if you have vacancies for January, February and March, it’s time to get them filled. Unless you are blessed with a property in a year-round holiday spot, encouraging guests in the low season should be high on your priority list. Here’s a few things I am doing […]
0 Shares Why You Should Not Accept Pets At Your Vacation Rental Are you pet friendly? Or, are you pet tolerant? Or, do you begrudgingly accept a small, non-shedding, hypo-allergenic dog that doesn’t bark, never climbs on furniture, and then charge a fee for it? As a pet owner, my view on this is: If you are not 100% committed to welcoming pets at your […]
0 Shares Giving Your Guests a Good Read I’ve been on vacation for a few weeks now on our annual road trip to the US and have already got through seven books. I save all my fiction reading for this trip since the rest of the year I’m usually immersed in How-To books on scintillating topics like SEO, WordPress plugins and Facebook […]
0 Shares Kingfisher Cottage – from Offer to Fully-Booked in 6 weeks – Part One Buying another cottage wasn’t on the radar at all. In fact, after five on the go at one time a few years back, I did that ‘never again’ thing, and one by one we sold them until just Osprey Cottage was left. So, for a few years we motored along renting Osprey very successfully until […]
0 Shares How to Wow your Guests and Stand out from the Competition I’ve stayed in many vacation rentals over the past few years and find my tolerance levels to lower standards have dropped significantly. The days have gone when it was acceptable to have the cheapest appliances and kitchen equipment; uncomfortable beds with thin comforters and insufficient pillows, and bookcases filled with unwanted Readers’ Digest condensed books. […]
0 Shares Staging For Your Vacation Rental When professional stagers work on a home that is for sale and create a fabulous look for the listing, they know that after the home is sold, their job is done and they can move all the staging materials out, leaving it bare and ready for the purchasers to put their own mark on the […]
0 Shares Buying a Rental Cottage – Setting the Criteria Given the great success we’ve had with our current vacation rental property, Osprey Cottage , we are now embarking on the search for a clone. I wish! Osprey is a fabulous rental and out of the five we’ve owned over the past ten years, it has been the top producer with an average 43 bookings […]
0 Shares How to Attract More Guests to your Vacation Rental with Beautiful Bedrooms If you want your vacation rental to appeal to potential guests, your bedrooms must look inviting and appealing. I’ve been blown away by the poor standard of bedrooms being offered in some listings and wish I could post the photos I have found online to demonstrate just how bad they are. An example I […]
0 Shares How to Welcome Your Winter Guests Winter is a little slow arriving here in Ontario with Christmas fast approaching and no sign of a white Christmas yet. However, that doesn’t stop us from preparing our vacation rentals for the snow and arctic temperatures bound to come before too long. Our guests will arrive wanting to kick back and enjoy their weekend […]
