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Any luck harcourt?

We tend to use international transfers - IBAN number sand BIC. Low cost for us. We have also set up a HSBC premier account which gives us local accounts in each of the key countries making the transfer simple for most guests - Zero costs for both of us normally including transfering the money intern...

Provence dead as a door nail. I might have to holiday in my own home in summer to move some weeks!

We have received about three enquiries in the last week though but they are thinking it over ... - desperately trying not to get on the phone and beg ... please please please

This year is proving to be the slowest in the 5 years we have been doing this. We have all of one week booked and very few enquiries coming through. Looking to expand advertising budget right now to see if that helps. Its really looking quite bleak ...

OK guys here is what we have done after much deliberation and reading all the posts more than once. We have taken option 2 i.e. we will seek to re-let and refund the deposit in case of a re-let. We have also said that the guest would be liable for any costs associated with discounts that may need to...

All thanks for the feedback, I guess our concern is that if we do book them in for next year then they may do it to us again and we could lose other bookings becuase of them again. We had quite a number of enquires for May we have pushed away. My wife informs me that when she took the booking the re...

Big Sis, Interesting about the balance being due. It is due next week. Never even thought about that. That's a bit of a twist - obviously that has happened to you - what is that a indication off? Do you think they have known for some while and are only letting us know now. That would really get us f...

Tilerman, I think there are a lot of people window shopping out there and looking around for a deal. We are getting lots of enquires as well but conversion rate is way down low compared to the last few years. We are using the same formula with high speed response (I get enquires sent to me SMS as we...

We have just received a cancellation for a three week booking in May :shock: . Suffice to say this year has been a bit slow but we have been doing ok up until this. The renter said that due to personal problems wont be able to travel and would like to move the booking to next year. Now we have a pro...

We are experiencing a very strange year with bookings. We are booked out for May and June but have most of July and August free which is very odd at this stage. We have thought about our price but have decided to hang in there for the time being. We think that times look really gloomy now, and in a ...

Paolo, You are only receiving the funds in those countires not earning it so no tax declaration required. If you move the money out quick time then you will earn no interest income if not you will probably incur some witholding tax on the interst earned. I have my arrangements with HSBC and yes they...

We have people transfer the required amount directly into our accounts using the IBAN - it costs us nothing as they need to make sure the required amount arrives in our account - no complaints in three years. We collect the security deposit by cheque or cash on arrival and give it back after the dep...

Carow, When we get a enquiry or multiple enquiries for the same period we have the same response which is we will reserve the week on email confirmation and hold it for a week while we get the details sorted. People appreciate the time to get things sorted. We do let people know when we have multipl...

Carow, In our first year we booked most the holiday season but that was because we where way to cheap for what we where offering (and didn't know it). The upside is we got good experience and went through our learning curve with guests who where more than accommodating as they couldn't believe the d...

We are seeing it must slower as well this year. We are in Provence France. We have raised our rates from last year but I am not sure that this is the problem as most of July and August are booked for us where most of the increase occurred. Its the medium season that has us worried in April and May, ...