0 Shares Why More People Should Choose Vacation Rentals I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but having just spent a night in a (not inexpensive) Nassau hotel/resort, it just struck me that this is why vacation rentals are so much better than the old alternatives. We’ve just left our beautiful rental home with a full kitchen (with decent sized tea mugs), luxury […]
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 Trip Advisor Vacation Rental Annual Survey There is no doubt that the market in vacation rentals is growing as it becomes more of a mainstream method of vacationing and not that quirky thing that the neighbours do. This has been helped by the publicity generated by celebrity renters, of whom the US President is one. Constant coverage of the Obama vacation […]
0 Shares Rising Expectations of Vacation Rental Guests I’m curious to hear how many owners have experienced requests, or even demands from their guests for services that we would not expect to be provided in a vacation rental. I recently heard of a few incidents of guests seeming to believe they were in a resort or hotel, asking for items to be delivered […]
0 Shares Can’t Sell? – Then Reap The Benefits of Vacation Rental The UK Times Online has addressed the issue of second home ownership in its article Strangers in Paradise. This mirrors the difficulties cottage owners are facing here in Ontario as the demand for purchasing vacation properties falls off. This is exactly what I was talking about with Seamus O’Reagan on the Canada AM Show […]
0 Shares Should Vacation Rentals be Licensed and Regulated? Here’s an interesting viewpoint on the fast growing vacation rental industry: “all vacation home owners who rent more than a couple of weeks in the year should be licensed and meet minimum standards for vacation rentals”. I read this on a forum recently and it has been niggling at the back of my mind ever […]
