Self-Catering-Online » Edinburgh Accommodation http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog Self-catering properties for owners, managers and visitors Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Self catering: less risk than long-term letting http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog/19/self-catering-flats/self-catering-less-risk/ http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog/19/self-catering-flats/self-catering-less-risk/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:14:43 +0000 Lenore & Janet http://www.self-catering-online.com/blog/?p=19 Janet recently ran a presentation in the Landlord Zone conference discussing the practicalities of using a flat for Self Catering vs Long-term letting, which was titled: Less Risk with Self Catering.
The conference was targeted to existing long-term let landlords or potential long-term let landlords, with the audience mostly disenchanted long-term let landlords looking for alternative ideas on generating income for their investment.  Most of the participants had never considered the option of using a property as a ‘holiday let‘.

Benefits of short-term self-catering

Janet identified many of the pros regarding short-term letting.  But perhaps the most popular points were down to two items:

  • No Assurred tenancy – tenant does not have rights to the property
  • Potential for earning more income

As many of the landlords at this presentation appeared to have been letting for quite some time, it was inevitable that many of the landlords had been through very difficult experiences with tenants.  While looking at their pride and joy of an investment they would get frustrated watching it deteriorate, possibly with a tenant who refuses to pay their rent.  Unfortunately, though this situation can be rare, it is difficult to rectify in a short period of time, leaving the landlord with no income on their investment and running the property at a loss.

Janet noted that with ‘holiday letting’ the guest is not granted the same rights as a tenant.  As long as y9ou have provided the guest with a correct set of terms and conditions (and they have accepted them) the guest does no have any rights to the property.  Also, with self catering letting the guest has paid in advance before arriving at the property.  This eliminates the possiblity of not getting paid.

Coming next

In the next blog I will discuss the cycle guest management.

]]> http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog/19/self-catering-flats/self-catering-less-risk/feed/ 0 Finding Self catering Property in London http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog/8/info-for-landlords/finding-self-catering-property-in-london/ http://www.edinburgh-flats.com/blog/8/info-for-landlords/finding-self-catering-property-in-london/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:44:10 +0000 Lenore & Janet http://www.self-catering-online.com/blog/?p=8 We are going to London today to attend and present at a Landlord’s exhibition at Olympia.

Having successfully established our web-site in Edinburgh, we now have facilities to advertise London self-catering property.  We’ve done lots of research and discovered that it is very difficult to find self-catering accommodation in London.   Several guests in Edinburgh had mentioned how difficult it was in London, compared to Edinburgh, Paris Rome and other major cities – which we were quite surprised about.

I took my daughter and some friends to London last year and wanted a holiday let apartment.  I discovered exactly what people meant.  There were no dedicated web-sites.  The only advertising sites were global sites – which are really geared up to provide information about Villas for beach type holidays on the Mediterranean or Caribbean.  I had to send out lots of messages – most of which resulted in no reply.  I just couldn’t search on availability, see details and prices and book with any confidence.

This was actually an even worse service than visitors to Edinburgh had before we set up.  Hence us making London our latest destination.

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