As part of my day job as an agency owner, I regularly view vacation homes and continue to be surprised by the perceptions of owners as to the rental potential of their properties. To prevent a wasted journey I have a lot of requirements to be met before a viewing, one of which is that […]
It’s that time of year again. The dock will be coming out of the water; the boat has gone to be shrink-wrapped for winter; and I’m going to clear the garage out in the vain hope that we can actually put a car in there this year And… with summer over, we are in full […]
Over the past few years we have written and produced many articles, downloads and videos about accepting pets at your vacation rental property and if you have read any of them you will know that Heather and I are dog owners and we advocate that VR owners welcome the furry members of your guests family to […]
Oh no…..a negative review! The day you get the first of these is never a happy one and there’s always a knee jerk reaction that will throw you into defensive mode. How dare they? Don’t they know what damage publicly displayed bad feedback can do? It’s completely unfair and we have to get it removed. […]
I regularly listen to podcasts by an amazing entrepreneur called Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income – a site that offers help and advice to anyone who does business online. Pat is a great inspiration to me – often if I’m struggling a bit to think of what to write about for the blog or […]
Managing a vacation rental by owner property can be challenging. There is so much involved in creating a profitable vacation rental business that getting it right from the start is tough — manageable but tough. It is more than learning from a few websites and hoping for the best; adopting a strategy for marketing and operating the […]
While I’ve been busy in the European and North American vacation rental market, I hadn’t really paid much attention to what was going on in the industry ‘down under’, so it was a delight to welcome Melbourne-based Rex Brown as my guest on the podcast. Rex is a speaker at the upcoming Vacation Rental World […]
My son and business partner, Mike, had no idea I was writing this post, so it’s coming as a surprise to him, but when I saw the latest review for his property, Sea Breeze, and read all the previous ones, I thought it was time to share his success with you. Our cottage rental agency rented […]
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 […]
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 […]
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