Lay My Hat

Well...

...when we were initially thinking of running a B & B we were told by the planning dept that permission for that was NOT required, and that's surely a business? You can see why we are confused!

Did all of you members (in UK) buy places that were already used as lets?

Thanks for the link. I am OK re building regs re any works, though there is nothing structural . We are just talking stuff like replacing glass internal doors, turning a utility into a bathroom etc - all being undertaken by contractors, not us, so any building regs etc will be covered. It will be do...

Norfolk Broads.
- sorry for not mentioning that bit

Hi all, We are buying a large barn property with over half an acre of land. We aim to use one end of the property for a holiday let. This will involve no changes to the property externally, just some internal re-arrangement. We do not intend to separate the services (water/gas/elec) and there will b...

Thanks all for the great welcome and the good advice. Surprise how many of you admit to the 'seat of your pants' method - lol :) Loads to think about, none of it is rocket science (AFAIK there are no rocket scientists on LMH) I actually was a rocket scientist (well - missiles engineer actually) - so...

Hi Moliere,

I know what you mean but i'd be daft not to go through the motions and see that the maths is sound.

Cheers
Gunwoody

Hmmm - that link doesn't work for me

Hi Nemo, Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, i'm guessing you're right and i'll have to resort to creating my own spreadsheet. I'm no stranger to that as i've run my own business for over 10 years but was hoping there might be a pre-made one that i could tailor. Oh well that's what you get for trying to f...

Hi all,

Hope to be taking the plunge into the holiday let business next year. Does anyone know if there are any good business plan templates available. I just think it would help rather than try and think of everything myself.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers
Gunwoody