Legal

• Check the short-term rental laws for your municipality
  
• Check requirements for business licenses and paperwork.
  
• Check safety requirements and health code regulations for your municipality.
  
• Research and purchase an insurance policy for holiday rentals, including guest insurance
  
• Create a rental agreement. Include clauses for the following:
  
  • Security Deposit Refunds
    
  • Total Payment Due
    
  • Instructions for Submitting Payment
    
  • CC Authorization
    
  • Cancellation Policy
    
  • Inclement Weather Policy
    
  • Pet Policy
    
  • Smoking Policy
    
  • Rental Restrictions
    
  • Maximum Occupancy
    
  • Minimum Stays
    

Tax

• Review information on applicable tax deductions, capital gains requirements.
  
• Research Tourist taxation on rental and / or occupancy tax rate for short term rentals in your municipality
  

Payments

• Determine your rental goals and break-even point.
  
• Set your pricing structure (nightly, weekly, monthly) and rates.
  
• Devise a method for tracking and recording payments and expenses.
  
• Determine your methods for accepting payment – credit card merchant account, PayPal, Moneybookers etc.,
  
• Develop a payment schedule
  
• Create a deposit refund strategy
  

Maintenance

• Find a reliable property manager for , meet and greet, housekeeper or cleaning service and maintenance person. Paying cash to locals is not a good idea. Ensure they have an Obert are part of a DOO. Or employed by the Management Company
  
• Create a cleaning/housekeeping check- list and photo manual
  
• Review cleaning checklist and process for check-in, checkout and keys with management
  
• Create a maintenance list
  
• Prepare a Villa Book with usage pamphlets of all equipment ,guest behavior and local amenites/attractions
  
• Complete maintenance projects and renovations.
  
• Winter checks and maintenance is crucial
  

Household

• Furnish your home based on target renters and according to categorization guidelines.
  
• Determine your rental market
  
• Create a list of items to purchase for rental licence and target market
  
• Purchase necessary items and save receipts!
  
• Create a property inventory list of items in your home. Include photographic inventory and prices
  
• Purchase a complaints and guestbook.
  
• Purchase local attractions books.
  
• Gather coupons, local attraction/activity brochures and menus from local restaurants and put them in villa book
  

   

Advertising

• Review portal websites and specialty websites to determine options for advertising your property.
  
• Set up accounts with 3 to 5 paid listing sites, upfront mixed with commission sites as well as free ones and a facebook page and twitter
  
• Create a headline, property description , google map and location description.
  
• Stage your home for photos.
  
• Take multiple pictures with a digital camera at different times of day or hire a photographer.
  
• Create captions for each photo.
  
• Set up a calendar
  
• Research virtual tour services and You tube
  
• Purchase domain/email address for personal site and professional email correspondence.
  
• Set up Facebook page and Twitter account, linking to portals for bookings or to Property Manger
  
• Link to listing site(s) from personal website.
  
• Determine procedure for booking management with your property manager
  
• Proofread your personal site and listing sites.
  
• Send an email to everyone in your address book linking to your personal site and new listing(s) and add to your facebook profile
  

Renter

• Set up an auto-responder for inquiries.
  
• Create standard responses and a sample confirmation email.
  
• Build a thorough set of directions and google map
  
• Build a list of instructions for using appliances, electronics and equipment at your property and leave in Property Book
  
• Determine method for getting keys to renters.
  
• Create a check-in procedure.
  
• Create a checkout procedure.
  
• Set up an emergency contact sheet, fire escape instructions and procedure and put in Villa Book
  
• Put together local vacation tips for your guests.
  
• Include transfer and taxi information as well as local car hire company
  

Fabulous quiet location for a delightful restful holiday. Close enough to all amenities if you decide you have ahad enough rest

Ok Guys
 If you dont know what this is , you are either too old or dead. This is the coolest festival. Check it out on Fb and book yourself on a flight for a fun dew days. After the Festival why not join us down on Brac to recuperate after a few fun fill days .

Great property for sale, with excellent rental income

Keep a track of your property expenses with our budget tracker

Check out some of the property management services we have to offer clients

Check out the Split airport website. You can find all the destination airports here that fly into Split. their is a webcam , info on how to get to the airport and to Split from the airport and for German wings and jet 2 you can check in online direct from the site

Presents

The Emperor’s River

Speaker Liam D’Arcy-Brown

Liam D’Arcy-Brown traces the Grand Canal of China – the world’s longest and oldest manmade waterway – from Hangzhou to Beijing

Sailing adventure aboard the yatch Squirrel

Speaker Brian Burnett

A journey through the Scillies/Scotland and the South Coast of Brittain, to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, the French Canals and Mallorca.

Saturday 18^th September 2010 at The Grosvenor Museum 1.00pm

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30 pm start until 4:30 pm

25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD – Entrance fee £2 refreshments included

We recommend you arrive early

For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930.

Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

This is a special offer you cannot ignore. I challenge our competitors to bring their prices down .