Lay My Hat

Thanks everyone for your responses. I'm assuming the criteria is the same then in other Scottish regions. Although I've heard from a couple of Tourism Groups that there is disparity in Scotland and how the LA's are interpreting the government's guidelines. I'll go ahead and submit our paperwork but ...

Has anyone had any success in applying for and getting the small business grant for FHL in Scotland? We are in the process of applying in Moray and initially had to provide some supporting documentation including Public Liability Insurance and list of all bookings for 2019/20. Now we have been reque...

+1 for hive. We installed it last year and have found it really useful. Easy installation and simple interface. You can set it to receive alerts when temp goes over level you determine. Like previous post we don't interfere with it when guests are in though, but just good to know....

Hi Tymawrfarm, yes we have been busy. Considering we went live in mid June - we were fully booked all the way through from last week of June to end of October, for nothing shorter than a week. We are pleased with our bookings so far for 2016 too. We chose to go with Sykes due to their national cover...

We were in your situation about 8 months ago! We had our first guests at the end of June 2015. We chose to use an agent as we don't live locally to our cottage and both work full time. We also use a company for changeovers and oversee any maintenance issues. In our experience having an agent manage ...

Hi we are considering a family holiday in Portugal for August 2016. We have three daughters aged 11,7 and 3. Ideally we are looking for; 3 bedrooms Near beach With swimming pool Preferably north of Lisbon (been looking at Obidos/Silver Coast) Which sites do you recommend using? Or Does anyone have a...

Hi Soupdragon We went through this just at the start of the summer with our first holiday home. Thankfully we found a fantastic company that has a laundry and cleaning business. While we have family locally to help with emergencies we've ended up using this company more as a property management comp...

Hi first I'd like to say a big thank you to all the posters and responders on this website. We are newbies and stumbled upon you all early on in our renovation work. What a source of information you are. We've been lurking around ever since but thought we'd take the plunge and introduce ourselves. W...