Thinking of bringing your pets on a holiday to the Shoalhaven? You’ve picked the perfect location! Not only are most of our properties pet-friendly with fully fenced yards, dog toys and bowls, but many are also located just a short walk from stunning beaches where your dogs can run around to their heart’s content. Most […]
Professional Holiday Homes Blog
The Top 10 Ways to Get More Holiday Home Bookings in 2019
In this article, CEO Craig Reid shares his top tips for getting more bookings for your holiday home in 2019… 1. Get Professional Photos When it comes to holiday planning, it is all about visuals. Don’t kid yourself that your ‘snaps’ will be good enough! Professional real estate photos are surprisingly cheap: $2-300. You will […]
Hear our CEO Craig Reid’s tips and tricks for success on the world’s #1 holiday rental podcast
Our CEO Craig Reid was featured on the number one vacation rental podcast in the world this week! (Heather Bayer’s vacation rental success podcast). He talks about the benefits of outsourcing and other holiday rental tips and tricks: https://www.cottageblogger.com/vrs245-how-to-outsource-and-other-vacation-rental-tips-with-craig-reid/
Safe Guests, Happy Host. The 7 Essential Ways to Protect Your Holiday Home from Risks.
Good news! You’ve just insured your holiday home with the best quality protection if something goes wrong. But how do you prevent things from going wrong in the first place? In the following guide, award-winning holiday home owner and Professional Holiday Homes boss Craig Reid share his seven tips to protect your holiday home from […]
When Appliances Go Wrong (and right)!
I’ve had a nightmare of a week. Do you want to know why? Dishes! That’s right…dishes! Because I don’t have a working dishwasher. What a nightmare!Imagine if this happened at your holiday home. If it did do you have an emergency response service if an appliance decides to go cactus? Think about the guest experience. […]
How to stop guests trashing your holiday home!
This is a classic example of not vetting guests correctly and is so easily avoidable. Now we have another instance of an article about party houses in the media because, let us face facts, articles about millions of holiday makers having a nice peaceful time over the weekend doesn’t unfortunately make the headlines. So, what […]
Stayz Introduces Booking Pre-Approvals (well almost)
This generates a screen showing a summary of the pre-approval request: Owners can check the details are correct or if they wish to make alterations they can navigate to the previous screen to make changes. Next the owner can enter a message to the guest. This is where I got really excited…expecting […]
Stayz Priority Listings to End August 2017
st of the month you’ll have been shocked to see that you couldn’t purchase a priority listing for August 2017. After a swift phone call to the Stayz Sydney team we can confirm that priority listings will no longer be offered from August 2017. Yes, that’s right-this is the end of priority listings for good. […]
The Pros and Cons of Starting a Holiday Rental Property
Buying property for investment purposes is popular the world over. But most investors choose the option of long-term tenanted rentals rather than go down the path of owning a holiday rental property. Often they feel afraid to buy in an area that isn’t close to home and which they don’t know well. On the […]
The 5 Key Staff That Holiday Rentals Need
Unless you live close to your property, you will require some staff to maintain and clean the property for you. If you do live close to the property and are planning on doing this yourself, be mindful of the amount of work required to both clean and maintain the property and whether it is worth […]