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We are, therefore, prepared to accept the use of a ‘cash basis’ (profits based on the cash paid and received in the year) provided all the following conditions are met: the case is small; by ‘small’ we mean where, for any year, the total gross receipts of a rental business (before allowable expense...

I've always used 'cash basis' for my holiday let accounts. I too, was not aware of any limit on income.

COYS wrote:From personal experience, I'd avoid it like the plague. I won't go into detail but once bitten, twice shy & no amount of additional payment would convince me otherwise.

I'd also consider where you are in relation to neighbouring property & any disturbance it would cause them.

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They are certainly persistent; I've had this e-mail every day (sometimes twice) for about a week.

I leave a cupboard full of tea-towels to help themselves, a roll of J cloths and a clean sponge. Paper kitchen towels are banned - if we find any in the houses on changeover day they get taken away. The sickening horror of blocked drains due to guest's using kitchen roll as toilet paper has never l...

FelicityA wrote:Excellent idea. I will follow the link to vote.

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My experience is that you can put your prices up and actually attract more bookings. If your price is too low, some will question "what's the catch?" I've put my prices up by 25% since I first opened my 3 bed cottage 3 years ago and gradually increased bookings. Definitely go with option 3.

Do you have a compost caddy with biodegradable bags in your kitchen? I do, and I find guests pretty good at separating food waste. I more have a problem with guests just chucking everything else into the main waste bin and not bothering to separate glass and cans etc. No matter how much explanation ...

Brand new j cloth and scourer sponge for every let. I reuse them for dirty jobs and then throw them away.

Sticking my neck out here and the only one by the look of things.......if you specifically know they'll be sleeping together then you could just make up the main bedroom but leave the bedding on the other bed/s just in case they want to use that too. We sleep 12 but house is often booked for just o...

Thanks for the replies. I now have a quote from Schofields :shock: ... premium over £550 !! Must have seen me coming. My current insurance (= content £50K, unlimited building cost) is just over £100, so I am very surprised at uplift for public liability cover (£5M) and other bits and bobs. And the ...

We used to rent out our annexe which was attached to the main house. We had awful trouble finding a standard policy that would cover holiday lettings, without taking an additional specialist policy just covering the annexe. In the end, we found e-sure would cover it at very little extra premium. The...

I can, they all open in a new tab and I can see the full listing including prices and availability. Just tried it for my area and different areas of the world and all work fine. Currently have 14 OD properties open on 14 tabs........... The problem is that you can't just click on a listing and go s...

Look, the whole HomeAway family (now owned by Expedia) are 1000000000000% committed to instant hotel style book it now. To pretend otherwise or to try and use that website in any other way is just a waste of energy. Its a booking engine, and not a listing site. Like the election of Donald Trump, ju...

I noticed this the other day too. It's absolutely infuriating and stupid. I can't imagine guests are going to spend much time trying to circumnavigate the system and will give up looking. They just seem determined to make everything harder and harder for hosts and guests.