Posted in Offers on 22. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
HolidayLettings is now offering a Money Back Guarantee for new advertisers to the website. Should your advert attract less than 20 booking enquiries through holidaylettings.co.uk in your first 12 month advertising period, they have promised that they will credit you back the full amount of your first year’s advertising subscription. To qualify you should email [...]
The Morairaway villa fraud in Spain
Police in Spain are investigating the case of Morairaway.com – a fraudulent villa rental company which advertised and took bookings for high end villas in Moraira, Javea about 80km north of Alicante. It seems many families from all over Europe have paid thousands of Euros for bookings with Moraira – [...]
Top tips to make your holiday rental property stand out
Why not add a fun extra to your property – an ice-cream maker, espresso machine, Belgian waffle maker, popcorn popper, smoothie maker, bread maker or even karaoke machine? Guests love playing with gadgets they don’t have at home. Get one of these and watch the booking [...]
According to various sources recently, on average holiday home owners are leaving their properties vacant for something like 70% of the year. I have read a range of comments from 50 weeks to 9 months.
Apart from the obvious potential for a burglary and thus the need for adequate insurance this reflects the huge potential of [...]
To follow up with the Holiday Rentals Offer Code we published yesterday, we have also been sent another very interesting offer – a rental enquiry guarantee where you can get your money back if HomeAway Holiday Rentals don’t manage to generate 20 enquiries for you in the first year. Please visit Holiday-Rentals.co.uk/advertise for more information.
Here [...]
Over 1,500 new holiday homes were added to holidaylettings.co.uk in February 2009 with around 20% of those new villas and apartments being located in Spain according to a report for holiday home rental
The increase in the number of homes advertised with holidaylettings suggests to me that
People are having difficult selling their holiday homes
People are [...]
More holiday home rental tips for owners of a holiday home :
Prioritise getting the high-value weeks booked, and be prepared to do deals. In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a recession on, which means people will have less money to spend on holidays. You are also competing with a growing number of owners.
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Posted in News on 04. Aug, 2010 | Be first to comment
The One Show – A prime time BBC One magazine style TV programme is hoping to make a 5 minute film to be aired roughly at the end of August about holiday villa scams, similar to the Moraira villa rental scam last summer and the one involving the Martin family who were in the papers [...]
Posted in News on 01. Apr, 2010 | Be first to comment
Found a few “interesting” holiday homes available for rental today:
A nice looking London town house – Zone 1, great security, excellent for entertaining, this 8 bedroom property has space for very large families or groups of friends. http://www.holidaylettings.co.uk/122593 for more info and photos.
For anyone looking to really get away from it all, there is a [...]
Posted in Advice on 02. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment
Don’t be afraid of holiday reviews
An increasing number of holiday rental websites are offering guests the opportunity to review accommodation after their stay.
Many second home owners are nervous of these reviews, fearing that poor feedback could wreck their reputation and future bookings. But there really is much less to fear than you imagine – [...]
Posted in News on 21. Oct, 2009 | Be first to comment
Hot on the heels of this survey which highlighted ten things people hate about staying in hotels (inspired by a holidaylettings.co.uk survey), Travel Rants gives five reasons not to rent a villa including a highlight of the Morairaway scam. Travel Rants five reasons don’t apply to many holiday home rentals in the same way that the [...]
Posted in News on 16. Oct, 2009 | 4 Comments
Flip Flops in the fridge, an entire room filled with pink balloons and and a twenty four inch machete are just a few of the belongings left in holiday home rental properties by punters guests according to a survey amongst Holidaylettings.co.uk members.
Holiday Home Owners and agents : I’m interested to know – What’s the strangest, [...]
Posted in Advice on 16. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the things that came out of the discussion about the Morairaway rental scam was that holiday home rental customers might be looking to pay by credit card when they book their villa or apartment direct from the owner. It’s for this reason I have had a look into registering as a paypal “merchant” [...]
Posted in Advice on 30. Jun, 2009 | 1 Comment
Essential Items for a holiday home property
Here’s a list of items that most holiday letting properties should be stocked up with if you are going to have happy renters which of course can only help in terms of those important word of mouth referrals and indeed repeat guests.
Some of the items will depend on how [...]
Posted in Advice on 13. Jun, 2009 | Be first to comment
Spain has long reigned as the most popular holiday destination in the world for British tourists. And despite the current economic climate and the weakness of sterling against the euro it will still be the number one foreign holiday choice in 2009. Making it an obvious location for anyone planning to invest in [...]
Posted in Offers on 26. May, 2009 | Be first to comment
Just a quick one to alert you to a prize draw that Expedia is running in which they are giving away a £4000 voucher to spend at their site to two lucky winners. It’s an online game – free to enter – in which you have to be a bit handy at Geography. You have [...]
Posted in Advice on 22. May, 2009 | Be first to comment
Potential problems with holiday rentals and how to resolve them
So you though the hard work was winning bookings for your holiday home ? While renting out your holiday villa or apartments is a great way to earn additional income, you are bound to come across certain challenges now and then. Courtney Wylie, Managing Director for [...]
Tips and advice for holiday home owners on how to rent out property.
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