Lay My Hat

I use Holiday Rental Management which works extremely well and is good value. It connects via iCal which seems to work fine - it syncs about every 30 mins and we haven't had a double booking yet. I've had a look at channel managers and they are expensive - and with only two properties they provide m...

Hi First of all thanks to whoever wrote this:https://www.laymyhat.com/portfolio/ota-comparison-airbnb-vrbo-booking-tripadvisor-what-are-they-and-which-is-best-for-owners/ I've been trying to rationalise our listing across VRBO, BDC and ABB and it's been a huge help. I'm struggling with short breaks ...

We got a huge amount of useful information from this post and the forum a couple of months back when we were furnishing our two holiday places - so we thought we would post what we did. The guests certainly seem to like it all. So for beds we went to hotelcontractbeds.co.uk - we bought the Pocket Dr...

Hi - I wonder if anyone has any advice on our mortgage problem. We have a residential property with an outbuilding which we are in the process of converting to a holiday let. We own the whole property outright, no existing mortgage, but we need to borrow some money to complete the work. It is a smal...

Hi - many thanks for your advice - this is really useful!
Cheers
Nick

Hi We are just finishing the conversion of an old watermill into a two bedroom holiday let - planning to be up and running for the summer holidays. The two bedrooms will each have zip and link beds so can be doubles or twins. We are having a discussion about whether to put a sofa bed in the living r...