0 Shares Washing bedding in vacation rental homes How often do you wash the bedding in your vacation rental property? I don’t mean the sheets and pillow covers that are more likely to come into direct contact with guests’ skin – I’m also referring to blankets, comforters, duvet covers, mattress and pillow protectors. Should they be washed after each rental? When we first […]
0 Shares What’s in a Listing Site? This seems to be the time of year when every day sees another email proclaiming the best listing site….ever….more features, more photos, reaching more renters, more bookings etc, etc, etc. What a load of guff. When I wrote the first edition of Renting For Profit in 2003, I included a couple of examples of listing […]
0 Shares Being A Guest in a Holiday Home Our recent trip back to UK was fleeting but it was a great week, enjoying the spring, visiting family and friends, and doing a lot of catching up. It was helped tremendously by our selection of accommodation which both worked out really well and added to my store of ‘best practice’ stories. After an overnight […]
0 Shares Kid in a Candy Store at the Vacation Rental Managers Association Conference I had an interesting and very educational few days at the Vacation Rental Managers Association Conference in San Antonio this week, and am now heading home for Ontario with a new perspective on the rental industry and with a lot of ideas to pursue. Given that the vacation rental industry in North America still represents […]
0 Shares Vacation Rental Reviews from a Guest Perspective This Guest Post by Terry Gronenthal is the first in a series inviting representatives of our client group – rental guests – to comment on their experiences of staying in a vacation rental home. Having spent the past six weeks selecting RV parks, based solely on on-line reviews, I was interested in how our rental […]
0 Shares What I’ve Learnt about Vacation Rental from RV Sites Every October we take to the road in our fifth wheel and explore the US, usually heading south to get a last blast of summer before returning to the snowy climes of Ontario for the start of another busy booking year for our rental management company. This year our road trip has taken us to […]
0 Shares So, do you work or just do this? I just loved this Facebook post and wanted to share it because it illustrates what many of us experience: I’m not sure what my response would actually be and whether it would be appropriate, but it would be something along the lines of: “I’m glad you’ve recognized the massive amount of work that goes into […]
0 Shares A day in the life of a vacation rental manager The past few weeks have been nuts but things are beginning to slow down a little so I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a little of what my day job entails and what I’ve learnt from a summer of rentals. We are blessed in our part of Canada to live amongst thousands […]
0 Shares Lessons in Attracting Negative Vacation Rental Reviews Since we started using Flipkey to invite reviews on our cottage rentals, we’ve had a great response and mostly they show our owners are doing a really good job. It’s been quite a learning curve though as we appreciate it often only takes a minor action (or inaction) on the part of an owner, to […]
0 Shares 21 Lessons Learnt in a Summer of Vacation Rental – Part 2 As I was writing this post I got to thinking about how much we learn each year and how nothing ever surprises us any more. What stood out more than anything was the number of guests who had never rented a vacation home before and their pre-conceptions about the experience which are based primarily on […]
