Share 8 Great Ideas for Vacation Home Owners 1 Magnetic door locks When you spend time in your own cottage, there will be things you don’t want to take home with you, or pack away in totes. Storing […]
Share How to Start Renting our Your Cottage I’m at Cottage Fest this weekend. This is the first cottage show of the season at the Markham Fairgrounds, and is always a good way to spend a snowy weekend […]
Share 8 Insider Tips for Vacation Rental Success It’s clear from talking to owners of vacation rental homes that those who have real success with their rentals have more returning guests, and fewer issues with problem renters. What […]
Share 5 Tips to Boost your Bookings It’s that time of year for vacation home owners when the first flutterings of panic can set in. Maybe you’ve got a week or two booked; perhaps you’ve had lots […]
Share What do Your Guests do Most at Your Cottage? What is the one thing everyone will do on a vacation in a cottage? I mean everyone….from the tiniest baby to great grandma? They will do it, not once, […]
Share Are You Welcoming Your International Guests? I was reading posts on Lay My Hat yesterday, which is my new favourite forum for vacation home owners. It’s a great read and quite illuminating in places as I […]
Share The High Cost of Buying Cheap When we travelled out from England to buy our first vacation rental home in Ontario, we had a week to close, furnish and set it up for rental. At that […]
Share Choosing a Domain Name for your Vacation Rental Blog I’ve finally got around to thinking about the domain name for my new cottage blog. Over the past couple of years I’ve come up with names for web sites and […]
Share ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A COTTAGE RENTER? We’ve all heard stories about Cottage renters who, during their stay at a Cottage, have either wrecked something, done something stupid, failed to follow instructions given, left the cottage […]
Share The Big Vacation Rental Blog Experiment – Part One I’ve been talking for a while about the value of using a blog to promote a vacation rental property, in place of a static web site. I wanted to […]
