0 Shares VRS080 – The 5 Most Important Elements of Your Vacation Rental Welcome Book I go to a lot of vacation rentals – as a guest. The only time I ever stay in a hotel is near the airport before an early morning flight, or when I’m at a conference and want to be on-site. Of course I’m ultra-critical just because I’m in the business, but I select carefully […]
0 Shares VRS079 – Vacation Rental Tax Talk with Hot Spot Founder Rob Stephens Do you find your vacation rental taxes confusing? Would it help to have a little help with licensing and remitting the appropriate taxes? For us up here in the frozen north (not so frozen now since spring and humidity have arrived ) we are in a fortunate situation. We don’t pay tax on our vacation […]
0 Shares VRS078 – Landing Pages and Lead Generation For Your Vacation Rental Business I have a big confession to make and it’s a little embarrassing. We do not have a mailing list…………yes I hear the crickets too. I don’t mean for Cottage Blogger – that’s different. If you check out the top of our home page you’ll see there is my free book – Staged to Rent (our lead […]
0 Shares VRS077 – 6 Questions Every New Vacation Rental Owner Asks One of the best parts of my job as a vacation rental manager is to visit new properties, meet enthusiastic owners and talk rentals non-stop. I love to hear their goals for their property and to discuss marketing opportunities for them. On many occasions, I know they have called in other agencies and am always […]
0 Shares VRS076 – Managing Down Under with Nick Marshall of Cairns Holiday Homes I’ve been hearing a lot from owners of smaller agencies about the challenges they are facing with growing their companies, so I thought it would be great to talk to some of these owners about their most pressing issues. Eleven years ago I went into partnership with the owner of a listing site here in […]
0 Shares VRS075 – Pesky Vacation Rental Owners and Social Media Tips with Lynn Abaté Johnson The title of this episode refers to a recent Skift article that pointed to a challenge that’s been in front of the big listing sites and OTAs from the outset: “Major players from Airbnb and HomeAway to the Priceline Group and TripAdvisor have tapped into only about one-fifth of the addressable $100 billion vacation rental […]
0 Shares VRS073 – Scott Shatford Airbnb Super Host & Founder of Renting Your Place In 2002, Mike moved out to Ontario after leaving the British Army. He’d just finished a 6-month tour in Kosovo and at the age of 21 had seen enough grimness to last him a lifetime. He moved into one of our rental homes while he set up his property management business and began working for […]
0 Shares VRS072 – Destination Payoff with Scott McGillivray of Income Property It’s been a long winter of waiting for Cottage Blogger’s own Mike Bayer, and his wife Andrea. It was back in the fall of 2014 that the popular home renovation show, Income Property, and its dynamic presenter Scott McGillivray worked their magic on their Lake Ontario property, Sea Breeze. The wait is over and the […]
0 Shares VRS071 – Airbnb Management Services with Guesty co-founder Amiad Soto It only seems a short while ago that Airbnb was seen as a platform for home owners who wanted to make a few dollars renting out a room in their place to a short-term tenant. In fact when I listen to the episodes of VRS with Jasper Ribbers of Get Paid for Your Pad and […]
0 Shares VRS070 – March Madness Vacation Rental Mashup with Matt Landau! Another month, another Mashup with Matt and in this one we cover a lot of ground, from Matt’s vacation in Mexico (in a rental of course), my recent weekend at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto, a shout out to an Ontario owner, the Inner Circle and a Twitter rant. If you follow Matt’s Vacation […]
