Share How to Educate Your International Guests When we came to Canada on vacation and rented our first lakefront cottage there was huge excitement in the family. All focus was on the location and what we were […]
Share To greet or not to greet – that is the question “When renting a vacation rental, do you want a detailed meet and greet from the owner or would you rather just get on with your holiday?” This question appeared on […]
Share How to Handle Guests With Colic You check your property at the end of a rental and find some damage. First of all you decide if you’ll accept it as normal wear and tear and simply […]
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 Five Complaints That Can Easily Be Prevented Put yourself in your rental guests’ shoes. Perhaps you live in a high-rise condo building. You have a small balcony overlooking another high-rise condo building, so the only time you […]
Share Are High Maintenance Guests Your Best Assets? It is likely that most of your vacation home rental guests will be of the low maintenance variety. They book; pay their money; arrive at the designated check-in time; leave […]
Share Seven Keys to a Happy Rental Season Hopefully, your rental season has kicked off on a positive note, and all will run smoothly through the summer. Your renters will all be totally knocked out by your property, […]
Share What Should Your Guests Bring To The Cottage? New owners often ask what they should provide for renters to ensure their cottage rental vacation gets off to a good start. I like to hear this because it tells […]
Share Educating Your Guests in the Etiquette of Cottage Living I recently read a forum post from a non-renting cottage owner blaming cottage renters on his lake for all manner of poor behaviour. Late night noise, operating watercraft in an […]
Share Are Your Rental Guests Happy? In an increasingly competitive vacation rental market, you have to do things differently to help you stand out from the rest. That might be a matter of using well staged […]
