Share VRS047 – Getting to 100% Vacation Rental Occupancy with Julia Hill Julia Hill is a dynamo! In a mere 2 years she’s taken her ‘wonky pink cottage’ on Florida’s Atltantic coast to maximum occupancy, just about finalized the purchase of a […]
Share VRS043 – A Melting Pot of Complexity – Reinventing the Vacation Rental Industry with Richard Vaughton My guest in this episode is a microbiologist turned vacation rental guru, or maybe just an everyday genius who made a career change that is benefiting hundreds of owners and […]
Share How to Create a Vacation Rental Alliance and Beat the Bans I live on a dead end cottage road, with one property beyond me before the road ends. It’s a quiet spot and we are rarely disturbed by neighbours. But for […]
Share VRS039 – Creating a Vacation Rental Owner Network The growth of the big listing sites and the move away from a relationship based transaction between guests and owners is driving more owners towards ways of connecting with customers […]
Share VRS038 – Dealing with Vacation Rental Complaints and Damage I spent the weekend at the Podcast Movement Conference in Dallas, where I spoke on a panel about podcast promotion, networked with 600 other podcasters, and had a thoroughly good […]
Share 10 Mistakes VRBO’s Often Make – #5 will kill your business before it gets started Managing a vacation rental by owner property can be challenging. There is so much involved in creating a profitable vacation rental business that getting it right from the start is tough […]
Share VRS017 – Are You Covered or Exposed? With VR Insurance Specialist Phil Schofield It’s not often you’ll hear me say that I’m looking forward to talking about insurance, but I was actually eager to talk to today’s guest as he is not only […]
Share Making the Vacation Rental Process Effortless When I first got into the vacation rental industry in the 1990’s it was markedly different to what we see today. I remember going to rental cottages in the UK […]
Share Why You Should Deliver on Your Promises It’s been a frustrating week here on our RV site in Alabama. While we’ve been watching presidential candidates making promises in their election campaigns that they may or may not […]
Share How to Prevent Cottage Rental Disasters by Playing the Insurance Card This guest post is by Phil Schofield of Schofields Insurance At some point holiday cottage rental owners will come up against problem vacationers. Unfortunately, it’s an occupational hazard – not […]