Holiday Lets

You will find some good investment tips on the following sites.

Have a search through the archives for your chosen area(s)

http://www.overseaspropertymall.com/

When it comes to marketing/setting up your holiday let, get some excellent advice from people who have done it at

http://www.laymyhat.com/forum/index.php
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vacation_rentals/

Things to consider include:

Who are you going to target- family's/golfers/skiers?
Are there frequent low cost flights there from the major airports?
Have a look on rental sites for your chosen area, are holiday lets there booked up or empty?

Hope this helps

doteasy.com

Rentals are legally a business. This states that you can not use the property for any kind of income at all, no renting, no at home business. The only thing you can do is live in the house, even if only part of the year.

This is not uncommon, vacation renters tend to thrpar tiersparties and have disregard the rights of others, as they are not there long enough to take action against them. This is to assure that your peaceful neighborhood stays that way.

You advert is noticeably the most expensive on Faial, charging more for sleeping 4 and some places sleeping 6 cost.

I realise that your place is high-specification, with wireless internet, air-con, and DVD, but marketing a "high-end" product is a bit different to marketing a "cheap" product, and the downside of those sorts of listings is that people can easily compare your rates to those of your competitors.

I have a marketing client who owns several UK holiday rental places - for her, we set up a blog and a mailing list so that anyone who had expressed an interest in her properties got a monthly email newsletter about her area.

With her, we set up a competition for people to register for the newsletter - with one subscriber winning a free weekend each year (no strings attached.)

Clearly, a free weekend rental may be less attractive in the Azores than in the UK, but some initiative to get people to sign up to receive regular information from you is definitely recommended.

That may be overkill, or too much work for a couple of apartments, but a blog (hosted free on somewhere like Wordpress.com) could be good. Regular information about the kind of things happening in the area, could lead you to a higher Google ranking for searches for things like "Faial holiday let".

The idea is that, once a week, you'd add a post about something related to the area, or new features (DVD library now available) etc...


You may, offline, also like to consider things like club magazines. There are regular classifieds in the Morgan Sports Car Club magazine for holiday lets, and its noticeable that some are advertising as classified there, year-in, year-out, so it must be working for them! The Morgan Club may be the wrong market (the holiday properties that are advertised there tend to be ones people can drive to on a "European Car Tour"), but other clubs may be of interest.

Your local Church may produce a magazine that has low advertising rates.

Never underestimate the power of postcards in newsagent windows.


The bottom line though, to any succesful property marketing campaign is that there is no single "magic bullet" - you need to be concentrating on multiple avenues.


What you MUST do, at the very least, is keep in touch with past clients - send them a monthly/quarterly newsletter through the post... offer them a "return stay" discount of 10%, or offer them a £50 "thank you" if they recommend a friend who ends up staying.

I wish I had the direct link for you, we to their EAC i think it was, and then typed in Terrigal, we weren't particular convinced, we compared to another close by, The Entrance, and we found a place right across the road beach.

We would have been happy with a one bedroom, but this had two, little kitchen, bathroom, living room, off street parking which you need in their busy season.

The cleaning after we left was included as long as it was tidy and the garbage out.

Chris

I think it's safe to say there's nowhere by that name, if it is then it's not marked on any map of the UK. I've got a computerised map of the whole of the UK which includes farm names, there's nothing by that or a similar name.

Lots of holiday lets in Wales. Maybe these search results will help... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=wales+holiday+lets&meta=

You are not using it as a holiday let but a permanent residence. Your Council will tell you how many weeks per year it can rented. A holiday let is for 1 person/family for a few weeks, not the same person for months.