Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:27 pm
It's worth remembering that Cottages also list your property on AirBnb / Booking.com and hundreds of other portals as well.
I moved from my local agent who was giving me 87% occupancy each year to Cottages.com for a variety of reasons, booking occupancy (believe it or not) not being one of them.
Whilst my start with Cottages was utterly awful in terms of how they handled me joining them and that I sent an email within four months saying "See you later, forget your termination fee too", I got moved onto a direct manager who now handles my property directly and links directly in with me.
I also negotiated the initial contract, and after the mess, got a few more wrangles in on the contract so I have a good commission rate, unlimited owner weeks, a no-fee termination period for them to prove they've pulled their socks up and a higher rate of payment on the dog fee of £30.
Because of the direct manager, the level of service is now excellent and the DM is superb at what they do. The bookings are still poor however, but personally I'm okay with that as the house needs a break whilst we refurbish and think of how we want to take it forward.
Anyway, as mentioned, they also list on AirBnB, so I'd check that your property is on there.
Oh, and my property team who clean and maintain the place also look after a good number of Cottage.com properties in the area and they say the same thing - they all started out poorly until they got the first few Revoo reviews in from Cottage bookings, then the bookings came in thick and fast.
We shall see.
I moved from my local agent who was giving me 87% occupancy each year to Cottages.com for a variety of reasons, booking occupancy (believe it or not) not being one of them.
Whilst my start with Cottages was utterly awful in terms of how they handled me joining them and that I sent an email within four months saying "See you later, forget your termination fee too", I got moved onto a direct manager who now handles my property directly and links directly in with me.
I also negotiated the initial contract, and after the mess, got a few more wrangles in on the contract so I have a good commission rate, unlimited owner weeks, a no-fee termination period for them to prove they've pulled their socks up and a higher rate of payment on the dog fee of £30.
Because of the direct manager, the level of service is now excellent and the DM is superb at what they do. The bookings are still poor however, but personally I'm okay with that as the house needs a break whilst we refurbish and think of how we want to take it forward.
Anyway, as mentioned, they also list on AirBnB, so I'd check that your property is on there.
Oh, and my property team who clean and maintain the place also look after a good number of Cottage.com properties in the area and they say the same thing - they all started out poorly until they got the first few Revoo reviews in from Cottage bookings, then the bookings came in thick and fast.
We shall see.