First guests tommorrow - feeling nervous!
First guests tommorrow - feeling nervous!
Hello again everyone,
As some of you may remember we have been refurbishing our house in York since February, and after a lot of hard work our first guests ( a group of arrive tonnorrow, and although I know everything is in place, I am still feeling nervous!
I would just like to say a huge thankyou to all of you who answered my questions, so much good advice, and it is great to feel a part of the hatter community.
As some of you may remember we have been refurbishing our house in York since February, and after a lot of hard work our first guests ( a group of arrive tonnorrow, and although I know everything is in place, I am still feeling nervous!
I would just like to say a huge thankyou to all of you who answered my questions, so much good advice, and it is great to feel a part of the hatter community.
First guests feeling nervous
Sorry, no idea why a smilie appeared it is a group of 8 !
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Hi Dizza - hope you get a good night's sleep - it sounds as if you've dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's so things will be fine. York's a wonderful city and hopefully your guests are appreciative people who will write something lovely in your guest book when they leave, and you'll have passed the first hurdle.
The forum code for that rather devious looking smilie is an 8 followed by the bracket )
You wrote "(a group of eight)" but used the numerical 8 .... hence
Let us know how your guests enjoyed their stay and welcome to the world of holiday rentals!
The forum code for that rather devious looking smilie is an 8 followed by the bracket )
You wrote "(a group of eight)" but used the numerical 8 .... hence
Let us know how your guests enjoyed their stay and welcome to the world of holiday rentals!
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Good luck - I'm sure it will go well though I bet you'll be waiting for the phone to ring! We are heading up to Whitby this morning in anticipation of completing on our purchase of a second holiday rental feeling rather apprehensive also!
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hope all goes well for you - where have you been advertising?
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first guests tommorrow feeling nervous
Thank you all for your kind messages, so far so good! no phone calls.
Happy lady I have been watching your posts with interest as we are in a similar area.
We signed up with Sykes at the beginning of the year, and this weekend is our first "live" booking.
We currently have 13 weeks booked until the end of the year, but I am hoping that will improve once the internal photos are added to our description ( at present there is only an external [photo due to the refurb).
I know there is a lot of discussion on the forum about companies such as Sykes, and I agree the commission is quite high, but for us it has worked in getting bookings and I have been very impressed with their owner service, very friendly and helpful. plus once I get a bit more computer savvy there is no problem in us marketing the property ourselves, as long as we charge brochure price and do not poach any previous guests. I liked that flexibility.
Hope that helps and good luck.
Happy lady I have been watching your posts with interest as we are in a similar area.
We signed up with Sykes at the beginning of the year, and this weekend is our first "live" booking.
We currently have 13 weeks booked until the end of the year, but I am hoping that will improve once the internal photos are added to our description ( at present there is only an external [photo due to the refurb).
I know there is a lot of discussion on the forum about companies such as Sykes, and I agree the commission is quite high, but for us it has worked in getting bookings and I have been very impressed with their owner service, very friendly and helpful. plus once I get a bit more computer savvy there is no problem in us marketing the property ourselves, as long as we charge brochure price and do not poach any previous guests. I liked that flexibility.
Hope that helps and good luck.
thanks for this info. As we wanted to use our place quite a lot ourselves this year decided to do our own marketing. Will review whether to go with someone like Sykes at the beginning of next year. Interesting to see that you can't poach previous clients if you leave Sykes but guess there's nothing to stop you leaving business cards in your visitors book
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We are 9 months in & just with HL but pleased how it is doing. As we want to use the cottage ourselves when it is available it suits us much more than an agent.
BTW Happy Lady - have just liked your FB page
BTW Happy Lady - have just liked your FB page
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If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air....
have liked yours Marsh Frog - your place looks lovelymarsh frog wrote:We are 9 months in & just with HL but pleased how it is doing. As we want to use the cottage ourselves when it is available it suits us much more than an agent.
BTW Happy Lady - have just liked your FB page
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