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by Mel House
Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:44 pm
Forum: Managing your property
Topic: Lettings Management Company
Replies: 3
Views: 1161

Hi holidayletter. We are in a similar boat, all be it in North Norfolk, we completed today (YAY!). What management fees are you being offered? The leading contender to be our letting agent is offering 22% for fully managed and 17% for partially managed. I have no idea if that is good, bad or ugly? H...
by Mel House
Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:29 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Management service fees
Replies: 0
Views: 1027

Management service fees

Sorry if this topic has been done to death, I have had a good search but not found an obvious discussion. We are close to completing the purchase of our first holiday home property. We've had a good period of planning and I have made extensive use of this excellent forum to understand the good and b...
by Mel House
Thu Nov 02, 2017 3:11 pm
Forum: Scam email enquiries
Topic: 'Booking for missionaries'
Replies: 2
Views: 2038

greenbarn wrote:Praise be! It’s almost a reincarnation of the Newly Ordained Greek Priests. How I miss the Newly Ordained Greek Priests!
They weren’t too fussy about sleeping arrangements either...
Are they surprisingly liberated?
by Mel House
Tue Oct 24, 2017 8:41 am
Forum: Bookings
Topic: 6 week booking as main residence??
Replies: 9
Views: 3552

I'm working away from home at the moment and my employer pays for hotels. But the project also has a number of self-employed contractors who band together and rent homes / cottages on relatively short-term basis as they are on rolling 1 month and 2 month contracts. In fact, 4 of them are on the mark...
by Mel House
Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:09 pm
Forum: Just starting out
Topic: Advice on furniture suppliers
Replies: 14
Views: 2357

We are in same position as you LazyDog, starting to buy furniture as the sale progresses. We are buying a Regency property that has some fantastic original features and therefore want to furnish it in keeping with the age and style of the property. My wife has been fantastic at scouring for sensibly...