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Thanks that's helpful and thanks for your good wishes too!

Hi We have a house and small two person gite in France. Reaching a certain age it may be time for us to sadly go back to the UK. We've been told that because of the possible residency problems for Brits after Brexit i.e March 2019, Now is the time to sell because the UK buyers market will die after ...

My gite is a micro enterprise classé and the income is declared each year on our tax return - WELL under the 30 odd thousand threshold. I have kept a record of bookings on my old Microsoft Money accounting system but I recently read somewhere that for bookings via OD etc we had to keep detailed reco...

In a similar position but have now gone over to Euros on OD/HA and my website - bit of a palaver as we are pay as you go and not subscription but worth it in the end. Seem to be more European bookings now (which is good) and as expected, less UK ones which is sad - except that the French leave the p...

Well I did (with some trepidation) revise my prices upwards so that they reflected an average Euro value we were getting over the past year. Surprise surprise: In the last week have taken a 3 week booking from Holland for June 2017 and a 6 week booking from South Africa(!) for rest of June & Jul...

Thanks all for your input. Our two main referrers are Booking.com and OD. Booking.com already in euros and paid into our French bank account and considering the increased number of European customers we've had this year (thank God) from OD and its European partners I intend to change to Euros with t...

Pound at a record low against the euro and possibly even parity by 2017. We take most bookings in sterling in our UK bank account and then have to eventually transfer funds in euros. So I'm considering price increases as will be losing quite a bit of money. Trouble is I'm worried this may be self-de...

Thanks for that - yes I do have a website just forgot to put it on the question

[www.ruralbliss.iowners.net][/url]

Advice please. We're in our second year of letting and last year we used Owners Direct and paid full whack plus Holiday Lettings at a reduced price and Chez Nous on a Free offer. We managed to get 13 weeks bookings albeit we had to discount from time to time. Our little 2 person gite only commands £...

Hi We got a free year on Chez Nous in return for saying we'd use their EasyBook system i.e. commission based. During the last year we've had loads of hits on our own site from Chez Nous but virtually none resulted in an enquiry and we only had one firm booking via them. (Loads of bookings via OD &am...

Hi - I've got their links because thats the only way they would display a link to mine! - I suppose I could delete them - would they know after a year?

All this has given me a lot of food for thought. I decided to used iowners templates because it seemed it was an easy way of starting a website but now I'm finding the restrictions of not being able to make amendments of design etc. rather burdensome. Be grateful for any suggestions as to suitable b...

Can you not put a direct link to your own website? It would not take so long with your own site to get your google rating back up I would have thought. There is lots of software out there for people of every skill level to make an independent website and you are likely to get further this way in th...

Hi and thanks for such a detailed critique. I am unable to implement most of your ideas because I'm using an ""independent owners" template. I can't make any physical changes including positioning, text sizes, extra bits and pieces because iowners are the only ones who can do that - a...

Hi all those kind people who gave me some input. I have made as many changes as I could and would be grateful for a review to see if there's any improvement. Can't do anything about the white round the edges of the photos in the slideshow though.

Thanks Robin