Reading Time: 5 minutes With the associated costs of holiday home ownership rising, there are an increasing number of holiday home owners turning to holiday letting as a means to generate income. Whilst the majority of property owners will market their rentals professionally, there are some owners who will steal your photos or website copy and pass them off as their own. Although it’s …
Reading Time: 7 minutes As any holiday property owner knows, holiday letting is a very competitive business and the gap between the number of enquiries you receive and the bookings secured is getting wider each year. The race to get firm bookings starts the moment you get an enquiry and doesn’t end until you’ve received a deposit and confirmed the dates on your …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here at Schofields we like to give people the best information about buying a holiday home in both the UK and abroad, and our team of researchers have been busy compiling the best destinations for a holiday home that will provide the best investments. Our research found that Catalonia in Spain proved to have the best return on investment, with …
Reading Time: 5 minutes One way of breaking free from the price war in the holiday letting industry is by adding more value to your rental than your competitors are offering, therefore helping yours to stand out from the crowd. Adding value to your holiday home means you can ask for higher rental rates, attract more guests and get a better selling price for …
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you rent out your holiday property for any length of time it’s somewhat inevitable that you will receive a guest complaint somewhere along the road. Regardless of the care you take over your property and quality of the service you give, you just cannot please all people all of the time. In today’s litigious society, it’s a sad fact …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hoteliers often report on items travellers take from hotel rooms, with toiletries and tea/coffee being the top items. However, this behaviour isn’t exclusive to hotels. Holiday home guests may not always be behaving within the rules of the law when staying in a holiday rental. When questionned, guests admit to ‘borrowing’ items from a holiday home they’ve stayed at in …
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the height of winter, the list of concerns that holiday cottage owners have about their property gets a little bit longer. Long nights already create security risks for unoccupied properties, but it is the drop in temperature that can potentially lead to the most damage. A burst water pipe doesn’t just mean the destruction of your possessions: any flood …
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