Share Staging For Your Vacation Rental When professional stagers work on a home that is for sale and create a fabulous look for the listing, they know that after the home is sold, their job is […]
Share Holiday Home Owner Uses Pinterest to Create Site Traffic I was on Twitter this morning, and came upon an owner who is using Pinterest in a really unique way to showcase her vacation home and drive traffic to the […]
Share VR Owners Questions –“What happens if renters trash my place?” The Cottage Life Show in Toronto each spring is a great place for vacation home owners to check out cottage-related products and services and the five halls in the Exhibition […]
Share 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 […]
Share Top Vacation Rental Insurance Tips for Property Owners This is a guest post by Phil Schofield of Schofields Insurance – a UK specialist in holiday letting insurance. Your vacation rental is a valuable asset and I am sure […]
Share Will You Rent During the Olympic Games? With London, and the world, gearing up for the Olympics this summer, many home owners may be considering moving out for the duration and renting out their space to make […]
Share The Perils and Pitfalls of Renting from a Distance Years ago when we purchased our first property in Canada, we were still living in UK. Romanced by the idea of owning an idyllic waterfront cottage that we could vacation […]
Share How Pinterest Can Boost Vacation Rental Buzz We all know the importance of the visual impact a vacation rental makes on a potential vacationer. With my Costa Rica holiday coming up, I’ve pored over images of beaches, […]
Share A Year of Vacation Rental Learning – Part Two Following my previous post on the things we learned in the first half of 2011, here’s the second part. It was a very successful and profitable year and we enjoyed […]
Share A Year of Vacation Rental Learning – Part One The New Year is always a time for reflection and now that January is just about gone, I’ve already applied a lot of the learning points from 2011 to our […]