Lay My Hat

Thanks to everyone who's replied. It's good to know we are not alone! When we bought the house we checked thoroughly whether the previous owners had declared any problems with the neighbour as we knew you had to declare this. They hadn't. They also had the holiday let for 7 years so I'm hoping the n...

So our new cottage should be up and running ready for restrictions easing. It's an exciting and terrifying time as we've never done this before. However, we've run into a snag: a hostile neighbour. Our cottage is in a VERY touristy village where there are lots of holiday cottages. The parking for ou...

Thank you everyone, that's very helpful.

Advice needed from the Hive Mind! My rental cottage in the Peak District is almost ready to go. We bought it back in October (perfect timing eh?) and have spent the winter renovating it seeing as it wasn't able to be open. We are aiming to be up and running when the restrictions are lifted at the en...

We started up last year in Cornwall and are with a regional agency. I have found them to be great to work with and were super helpful while we were buying and renovating the cottage, well before we signed on the dotted line. They have been invaluable during Covid as both of us work full time and th...

I doubt Airbnb would work unless you do changeovers yourself as the cost would be too high. I read a lot of complaints regarding websites like Sykes etc. I use an agent who is local to the area of our place. They are five minutes walk away in fact. When we first joined them their IT nouse wasn’t th...

For recommendations you should read through this forum. When you write agent are you looking for an agent who will take on the daily grind, like cleaning key facilitator, organise repairs etc? Of do you want somewhere just to advertise with? Ideally someone to take the bookings and be a point of co...

Thanks for the replies. There seem to be varying opinions, as expected. We don't live miles away from the property (about 20 miles) and would probably visit once a month to check on it, so not totally hands off. What I don't really want is to handle the bookings or changeovers but would do the clean...

Hello all, I would really appreciate some advice. We are currently in the process of buying a holiday let in the Peak District and the reality is starting to kick in. Will we be able to let it out? Will it be more hassle than it's worth? Etc. Etc. We aren't after making any money but see this as a l...