How to Let Your Holiday Home: As a Profitable Business
By Dori Joyner
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So you have a holiday home. All you have to do is furnish it, equip it, fill it with lovely people all summer long, who will treasure your possessions, leave your home immaculately clean, re-book for next year and you will be laughing all the way to the bank. If only it were that simple!
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How to Let Your Holiday Home - Dori Joyner
How to Let your Holiday Home:
As a Profitable Business
Content Copyright Dori Joyner
June 2013
Published by Dori Joyner at Smashwords
All Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hirondelle Farm
Furnishing Your Holiday Home
The Garden and Outside Spaces
Taking Photographs
Marketing your Property
Setting rental rates
Administration
Changeover
Property Management
Dealing with Complaints
The Law
Sample Documents
Introduction
So you have a holiday home. All you have to do now is furnish it, equip it, fill it with lovely people, all summer long, who will treasure your possessions, leave your home immaculately clean, re-book for next year and you will be laughing all the way to the bank. If only it were that simple!
It doesn't matter if your holiday home is a villa in Florida, a chalet in the Swiss Alps or an apartment on the Black Sea, the principle is the same. We all want the same thing; lots of holiday weeks booked in our property year after year.
•But how do you get this business up and running? And once it is, how do you make sure you make as much profit as possible?
•How are you planning on marketing it? Will you have a website? A brochure?
•Where will you advertise it? How much can you spend on marketing?
•Will you accept children or animals? Is your property child friendly?
•Is the property suitable for the disabled?
•How many weeks do you hope to rent out the property?
•Will you want to use the property as a holiday home for yourself?
•Are you prepared to offer short breaks?
•Could you offer special interest holidays, such as fishing, wine tasting, cycling or horse riding?
•How much are you thinking of charging? What are other local holiday home owners charging?
•What will your charges include? Electricity, water, perhaps firewood?
•How are you going to collect your rent? Will you take credit cards or use PayPal?
•How are you going to furnish and equip your holiday home?
•Will you supply bed linen and towels? If so how will you launder them? Is there a commercial laundry nearby?
•What facilities are available at the property? Satellite TV? Internet access?
•Will you have a pool? How long will it take to recoup the cost of installing a pool?
•Do you live near your holiday home? If not, who will meet and greet your guests? Who will be there on change over day to see guests off, clean the house, make up the beds and welcome the next lot of visitors?
•Will you rely on neighbours to help out or will you employ a property management company?
•What about emergencies? Is there a doctor or hospital nearby? Or maybe a plumber?
•What about the tax situation? Will you need an accountant?
•What about insurance? Do you have Public Liability insurance?
I have probably raised questions here you haven't thought of, but, trust me, there will be more.
We have had two holiday homes in France for 12 years and it is pretty fair to say that we were far too naive at the beginning, but we have learnt from our mistakes over the years. Today we also run a French Property Management business for owners who want to rent out their property as a holiday home. Sometimes, when talking to new prospective holiday home owners, we forget that it has taken us all this time to become experts in the field. That is why I decided to put our experiences to good use and write this book.
During the last decade we have