Yes, it makes a difference in a lot of ways.…but with all due respect to you and Alan, both of you live on the premises…
Fluffy
That’s possibly a good idea for threads which have a very specific subject but probably not viable due to the friendly atmosphere of the Forum.Sugestion: Couldn't we sugest people who post new topics to try to make a résumé of arguments and ideas posted in the thread ? I believe it would be much useful.
Just my final comment (honest!)Charging a damage deposit can be seen as revealing suspition from our side and have a preverse efect on guests breaking the trust created by the personal meeting.
Thanks for putting it into perspective. We attract mainly families with small children. Parents with 4 boys under 5 years old last year left the house immaculate, so I am not trying paint families with small children as the problem. No adult sets out to deliberately damage your property, however, in my experience children may do so if not properly supervised, and we also had one of those last year as well.paolo wrote: Here I am! I once took a deposit for a family with three kids, and kept it because they put chocolate stains on the sofa. Also once for a small dog, who left no mark of his stay. I haven't had a problem so far, but my properties are small and not really for families, so there is less scope for disaster.
That's it in a nutshell, as Alan and Mousie have said. And as Joanna has said, those who trash must flash the cash; some of us simply differ in our cash collection methodsAlan Knighting wrote: Some owners ask for a damages deposit and some owners don’t; it’s simply part of how they run their businesses and nothing more.
I couldn't agree more. 'To each his own' I suppose re. whether people take a damage deposit or not. However, our damage deposit also covers any extorionist mis-use of electricity!.....human nature being what it is, all businesses have a proportion of difficult customers, and this one is no different. So I'm sure it happens eventually to everybody, at least we hear the tales of woes on here often enough to believe it is so.
Whatever do you mean FluffyCan you imagine applying that approach to topics in the Café? producing résumés (only joking Ros).
As if anybody would think Im addicted to the forum Im not by the way...just the people in it.....and i really really mean it ..Ros would spend all her days