Share How To Clear Out The Bad Apples In The Vacation Rental Barrel Vacation rental clients have higher expectations than ever before, and property owners should be giving this trend the attention it deserves. I recently saw a couple of photos submitted to […]
Share How to Stand Out in a Crowded Vacation Rental Market Here’s some questions…. Do you have a clear marketing plan? What targets have you set for occupancy this year? Have you got a budget for advertising and promotion? Is your […]
Share Rent By Owner or Use A Rental Agency – Your First Decision When I bought my first rental property in Canada, I was still living in the UK, but didn’t even think of asking a third party to manage the rentals. […]
Share Being Pet Friendly May Bring More Bookings If you are already feeling the pinch with your vacation rental bookings then maybe you should be considering accepting pets. Our own stats show that over 60% of enquiries this […]
Share Outsourcing – The Vacation Rental Owners Guide I’ve made a few changes on the blog – only minor tweaks but there were a few things that needed doing. I changed some photos; moved the categories over to […]
Share It’s Time to Renovate The Cottage Guide This is such a great time of year for planning. We are scheduling in some renovations for the cottage – new kitchen flooring, deck remodelling – and a whole bunch […]
Share Disaster Planning or When City Dwellers Come to Cottage Country! Now we are in the grip of winter here in Ontario’s cottage country, my mind turned this morning to all the things that could go wrong with my upcoming rentals. […]
Share Are You Giving Your Guests A Safe Night’s Sleep? I read a post on the Traveling Mamas blog this morning that was a chilling reminder of how lack of attention to safety issues can have horrifying consequences. A family […]
Share Really Bad Rental Listings – What Are They Thinking? I felt compelled to write this after spending an hour or so surfing the web for Ontario cottages. In no more than 10 minutes I’d found half a dozen listings […]
Share How to Stand Out from the Competition in Tough Economic Times 2009 could be a tough year for cottage rentals. There’s indications that the increase of properties available for rent, coupled with a reduction in the rental population could mean a […]
