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Craig W Reid - The Professional Vacation Rental: Buying, Managing and Enjoying Your Home Away from Home--Profitably

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Have you dreamed of owning a vacation rental but dont know where to start?

Dont make the mistakes that others do! This is the complete guide to buying, starting and running a successful vacation rental - without giving up your life to do it ...

In this book, award-winning vacation rental owner and Professional Holiday Homes CEO Craig Reid guides you through the process so that you can enjoy your vacation home and make life-changing money at the same time.

Youll learn how to ...

  • analyse properties to select the best vacation rental for purchase
  • set your property up to an award-winning standard
  • avoid the wrong types of guests
  • price your property for maximum returns
  • avoid the rookie mistakes that can ruin a vacation rental
  • Learn the secrets of airbnb and the worlds top booking websites

    This is the single most comprehensive guide on how to run a vacation rental Ive ever read.

    Matt Landau - Vacation Rental Industry Expert and Founder of the Vacation Rental Marketing Blog

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    About This Book

    This book is designed to help you through all the stages of vacation rental - photo 2

    This book is designed to help you through all the stages of vacation rental ownership, from buying the right property, to setting up your property for rental then the process of managing your vacation rental to achieve success.

    Technology is moving at such a fast pace that by the time you are reading this book the booking websites will have changed several times. To mitigate this, the focus of this book is on the key success factors that are applicable to any booking website irrespective of the changes that occur rather than a deep dive into their functionality.

    The book has been specifically written for a typical vacation rental owner. That person is busy with their career, lives a 23 hour drive from their property and therefore has only 12 hours a week to spend managing it.

    Not only is the book a checklist of everything you need to do, but it also covers how to avoid the pitfalls and embrace the quick wins to build a vacation rental that is not only easy to run but which is profitable and professional.

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    Introduction: Living the Dream

    T hink back to that day you were on vacation. That day you were enjoying so much. Maybe you were splashing in the water at the beach or strolling through the countryside. It was a day you wished could last forever. Maybe you wandered through the town you were visiting and stopped to look in the real estate agents windows ... and dreamed of what could be. Then you realised that maybe the dream wasnt so far out of reach after all, that cozy cottage you were staying at was a vacation rental property too. Why couldnt you do the same thing?

    There is no reason why you cant. Hundreds of thousands of others around the world have done so, and they enjoy their properties while also creating a fantastic income stream. You can do that too. Sadly, though, for some people, a vacation rental can become an albatross around their neck. Poor booking numbers, high maintenance costs or simply a lack of a customer base can lead to huge disappointment and financial problems. But that isnt going to be you!

    As the CEO and founder of Professional vacation Homes and the owner of two highly profitable, multi-award winning properties I will walk you through every step you need to successfully buy, run and enjoy your new home away from home. More importantly, I will show you proven methods for achieving maximum bookings with minimum effort.

    Our Story Like many others we fell in love with the sleepy seaside town of - photo 5

    Our Story

    Like many others we fell in love with the sleepy seaside town of Callala Beach when we visited the Jervis Bay area on vacation. All the variables seemed right: under three hours from our home in Sydney (not too long a drive for a weekend), a beach as beautiful as a tropical island and an untouched charm that reminded us of the seaside vacations of our childhoods. In short, it was love at first sight.

    We spent some time visiting Callala Beach and talking to a few real estate agents before deciding that we wanted to take the plunge and buy a property. As new parents of twin boys we felt it would be more convenient enjoying vacations close to home as opposed to getting on a plane with two babies. Making the decision was the easy part. Over the next two years we went through the Global Financial Crisis, stopped looking for a while then realizing that the property market had plateaued, summoned up the courage to buy. We spent several months looking at different properties before we found one that had the right beach house charm. We bought it the day it came on the market and we settled on the property in April 2009. We called it Hayes Beach House after Hayes Cottage in the Shetland Islands in Scotland where my mother and grandmother were born.

    There was a lot of work to be done and we found an excellent contractor and renovated the property inside and out just in time for the busy summer season. In November 2009 we listed the property on a single website with minimal expectations as to how many bookings we would receive (after all, a local real estate agent had told us optimistically that we might get 46 weeks of rentals per year). Within the first few days we were inundated with enquiries for the Christmas and January vacation period.

    Looking back we have to laugh at how we handled those first enquiries. We honestly thought that if someone sent in an enquiry it meant that they wanted to book. We spent about a day plotting a large number of enquiries against a calendar then sending out responses fully expecting them to slot in neatly like a jigsaw puzzle. Of course, most of them decided not to book and we learned our first lesson: if they want to book, take the booking. The calendar will work itself out.

    In that first year we were delighted simply to be paying our mortgage and we did that within our first six months of renting the property. We were bitten by the bug at that point and started to look at the many websites we could list the property on. We also put processes in place to streamline the amount of effort required to manage the enquiry and booking process. Over the next three years we experimented with listing on a range of websites some good, some bad, some incredibly ugly (in terms of return on investment). We also started to enter the local tourism awards and were happy to be listed as a finalist in 2011. We started to build up a huge number of positive reviews and this was a big factor in us winning the Stayz.com.au award for best pet-friendly NSW in 2013. We then followed this by winning Silver at the South Coast Tourism Awards in 2014.

    In 2016 we bought our second property Sunbaker Beach House at Culburra Beach, a 15-minute drive from our first property. It was summer and we got Sunbaker up for rental quickly. We didnt renovate but did a few touch ups to get it shipshape, added new furniture and had it on the market for the last two months of summer which brought in some much needed cash. In winter 2016 we renovated the property throughout.

    We had expected Sunbaker to do well but didnt expect it would match Hayes in bookings in its first year and thats exactly what it did. In fact it often exceeded Hayes bookings for some months of the year. By the end of the financial year Sunbaker had achieved $81k in bookings. Not bad for a humble beach shack a four-minute walk from the beach!

    It was at this point that we realised that we could achieve the same incredible results for other properties, and in mid-2017 our company, Professional vacation Homes was born. We took on our first client in June 2017 and have grown steadily ever since. Our consistent track record of increasing our clients bookings has given us a terrific reputation in the marketplace.

    Hayes and Sunbaker continue to be two of the busiest properties in the Jervis Bay area and we still get to enjoy them too.

    All of this success required experimentation and trial and error to get things right. The good news is that by reading this book you dont need to go through that!

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