Share How Much Should You Pay for Property Management? I’ve been having some interesting conversation recently with the founders of We Check it Out. Angela Balan and Jeff Sopik have partnered to bring their unique business and management skills […]
Share Are You Adding Value by Providing Linens for Your Guests? I’ve been in lively discussion with a fellow cottage owner about providing bed linens for guests. From my knowledge of the rental market here in Ontario, I would guess around […]
Share Additions, Renovations and Improvements to Increase Rental Profit The time has come for some renovations at my cottage in the Kawarthas. We’ve been renting out Osprey Cottage for three years now and have had a lot of success, […]
Share 8 Ways to Attract Winter Cottage Rental Guests 1 Change the photos on your website to show winter scenes Potential renters are going to find your site more attractive if there are winter photos to motivate them to […]
Share 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 […]
Share What your Guests Need to Know About Winter Rentals On one of our first winter visits to our Haliburton Highlands cottage from the UK, we experienced a 36 hour power outage during and after a winter storm. It was […]
Share How to Market your Vacation Rental with a Blog Blogs have gone way beyond being just a platform for self involved people to share uninteresting details of their mundane everyday life. Although there a plenty of these types of […]
Share Why You Should Give Your Guests a Good Night’s Sleep In the course of a year, I probably visit over 100 vacation homes and cottages. Sometimes this is an annual inspection for rental cottages for my management agency; sometimes as […]
Share Are Bed Bugs Biting at your Cottage? Bed bugs are on the march, and could be marching into your cottage mattresses, sofas and carpets. Pest controllers in Toronto are reporting huge increases in call outs to infestations […]
Share Winter Power Outages -Buying a Generator We’ve just bought a generator. It took us a long while researching and considering the expense but we finally decided to take the plunge and bought a 16kw automatic propane […]
