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Friday, December 21st, 2007My sister owns a beautiful cottage on Clear Lake –in fact there are two cottages together that she rents out either individually or together for larger families. She really enjoys talking with guests, helping them with their vacation plans and making sure the cottage is right for their needs. She has a great website and […]
Making a Profit on Selling your Vacation Home the Fractional Way
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Fractionalize to Maximize - E-Book Review
I am intrigued by the concept of fractional ownership. When I hear owners complain they never have time to spend at their cottage and it is left empty much of the year, it is clear the economics of cottage ownership may deter many potential buyers from getting into the market. […]
Using Flickr Photos on your Vacation Rental Website
Friday, November 30th, 2007Using high quality photographs on your cottage rental website or listing is your most important selling point. Your potential guests look at four aspects of your site in their decision making process – your descriptive text, the list of facilities, the rental rate, and above all – the pictures. Great photos can influence their choice […]
8 Ways to Attract Winter Cottage Rental Guests
Wednesday, November 28th, 20071 Change the photos on your website to show winter scenes
Potential renters are going to find your site more attractive if there are winter photos to motivate them to book. Next time you get a good snowfall, take some great pictures of the exterior of the property, before the snow gets trampled on. If […]
Vacation Rental Scams - Part 2
Friday, November 23rd, 2007In my previous post about rental scams I mentioned how they generally work to fraudulently get money from vacation rental owners. I’ve had a few scam emails this week so thought I’d do a quick analysis to show you what to look for.. Although each one I get is slightly different, there are similarities in […]
Creative Ways to Rent your Fractional Ownership Weeks
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007I first heard about fractional ownership ten years ago when friends in California took us up to their beautiful ski chalet at Lake Tahoe. They had bought a seven week share in the chalet along with six other families. I was fascinated when a box came out of the car containing a whole […]
How to Market your Vacation Rental with a Blog
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Blogs have gone way beyond being just a platform for self involved people to share uninteresting details of their mundane everyday life. Although there a plenty of these types of ‘journal’ around, the whole focus of blogging has changed. Businesses and entrepreneurs are using the blogging medium to promote their products and services to […]
How to Identify Cottage Rental Scams
Thursday, November 15th, 2007I had an email from Zac Gribble at Cottages in Canada this morning. He wanted to share some information on a scam that is pretty widespread at the moment.
“Over the last few months, several con artists have been attempting to scam cottage owners throughout Canada and have unfortunately been targeting listings on CottagesinCanada.com. The scam […]
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