Jun
25
2009

Have you already downloaded your personal “Manual For Vacation Rental Owners” ???


Dear Vacation Rental Owner,

have you forgotten why you ever started with vacation rentals? Is all getting you down? You imagined interesting guests and a healthy second income. You’ve got endless chores and piles of bills.

Momentum is a cruel fact of life. When people do well, they are buoyed by their own success, and go on to greater achievements. When things go wrong, they seem to keep going wrong relentlessly. Eventually, the knocks can wear you down. You lose your spark, everything is a drag. You’re certainly not projecting holiday spirit to your guests!

You can escape from the cycle. To start with you need to ‘step outside of yourself’. Take an objective look at the situation. If you’ve got enough awareness to recognise you have a problem, then you’ve just taken the first step to making things better.

Use external resources to help give you clarity on where you might be going wrong. A book like “100 Tips For Successful Renting” will give you lots of good ideas, without overwhelming you.

Start taking a regular afternoon coffee break with your “100 Tips For Successful Renting” book. It’s never wasted time to let your mind relax and become more open to the bigger picture.

Take three sheets of paper. Write one of your goals in a bubble in the centre of each sheet. Every time you come across a tip or an idea that would help to achieve you goal, write it on the piece of paper like a spider diagram. Don’t be afraid of writing in your own ideas, drawing lines to link ideas together even putting in some color. You’ll amaze yourself with your own creativity – and very soon you’ll have drawn your own route map out of your rut.

Don’t try to fix everything at once. With all your ideas on paper, pick one or two that you think would make the most difference. Then book some regular time in your diary to make it happen. 15 minutes every day is perfect. 12 hours straight once a year is not so good.

Keep your book by your bedside, and your diagram prominently displayed. Keep your eye firmly on the goal. Become defined by your dreams, not by your chores

Wish you successful renting!

Sincerely yours

Milan Matchev

CEO at http://arrangeyourvacation.com

Jun
04
2009

Lanzagrotty?  Hardly.  This unfair epithet was coined many years ago by Monty Pythons Michael Palin.  And has stuck in the psyche of many British holidaymakers ever since.  But mention this to visitors from other countries and you´ll be met with incredulity.  As elsewhere in Europe Lanzarote is regarded as the coolest of the Canaries.  Thanks to the island’s many attractions and high standards of holiday accommodation.

 

Indeed there are no ranks of high rise hotels on Lanzarote or billboards competing for the attention of holidaymakers.  As these were all outlawed years ago back in the 1970´s.  At a time when Lanzarote was regarded as the new hot travel destination.  Thanks to the efforts of the local born artist Cesar Manrique, who really put the island on the map with his incredible creations, such as the Jameos del Agua and the Jardin de Cactus.

 

These works helped to attract a whole raft of VIP visitors in the early 1970´s.  Including actors such as Peter Sellers and Omar Sharif.  Whilst even the King of Spain maintains and uses a residence on the island at Las Maretas in Costa Teguise.

 

Today the famous guests are a little thinner on the ground but visitors can still choose from a broad range of top quality accommodation, encompassing five star hotels and luxurious private rental properties.  The best villas in Lanzarote can be found in and around the resort of Playa Blanca.  But there´s also plenty of character properties in Lanzarote´s volcanic countryside available for rent.

 

Lanzarote is an ideal destination for anyone who enjoys sightseeing as well as sunbathing.  Measuring just 60km by 40km the island is easy to tour and navigate and boasts loads of natural beauty spots as well as Manrique´s man made attractions.

 

The Timanafaya Volcano Park is the most popular tourist spot on the island.  Boasting a bizarre landscape formed by a series of volcanic eruptions centuries ago.  Whilst elsewhere visitors can view the famous Green Lagoon at El Golfo.
Star of many a science fiction movie, such as One Million Years BC.

 

Lanzarote is also soon set to star again in the latest movie release from Pedro Almodovar.  Whose film Broken Embraces, starring Penelope Cruz, was shot on location across the island.  And will soon be screened in cinemas across the UK from August.  With island authorities hoping this will have a similar impact on tourist numbers as the release of Mamma Mia did for the island of Skopelos.

May
29
2009

Engaging the whole family into a sport vacation is a good way of strengthening family bonding. You can explore new and exciting destinations at the same time learning new activities and sports. Almost all countries globally have sports and fishing vacation to offer for the entire family. Here are some countries where you can spend your family adventure.

 

Morocco. The climate is good all year round with the south warmer and become more pleasant during the winter months. It has a natural beauty and efficient infrastructure with an ideal location for all forms of sporting events and activities. Your family will sure love this fishing paradise where it has more than 3,400 km of coastline that attract anglers from all over the world. Agadir, and Dakhla are only some of the best sea fishing venues and offer an unbelievable variety of fish – Sea bass, white breams, sea mullets and gilthead sea breams. Not only that you can also enjoy the horse riding tours and excursions throughout Morocco. Plus, a golf events and tournaments are scheduled weekly. These are only of the few your family can experience during your vacation at Morocco.

 

France. You can enjoy water sports and fishing holidays in France. It is the home to the oldest working canal in the world, the Canal du Midi or Canal des Deux Mers, where the whole family can experience a barge cruise. It offers an abundance fishing venues from Britanny’s Lake Lezay for Carp fishing to Corsica’s Tavignano River for fly fishing. Looking for some big waves? Hossegor is the perfect place for your surfing. You can also try other surf beaches like Lacanau Ocean and Biscarosse Plage. If your family wants to experience adventure, then try the most popular sport in Brittany known as Kayaking in the area of Dordogne River. You can find hire companies along its coastline to assist you.

 

Make a wise decision in choosing your destination. Not only should you be please but your entire family.

May
29
2009

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May
29
2009

Did you know that Rockefeller made his fortune during the great depression?

Times of economic instability are challenging for everyone. However, the silver lining can be that they really push people to do the best that they can. You must provide the right product, at the right price and communicate it to the right people. If you do, you can be very successful.

As a vacation rental owner, remember you are not asking people for money. You?re offering them a service. A well deserved holiday to relax and reconnect with their family. If you get it right, you can have a fantastically successful business, and happy clients.

However, with finances being tight, people will be all the more demanding. Lack of attention to detail from your vacation rental owner will be just so much more galling if you have scrimped and saved to afford the holiday. The gap between the ?good enough vacation rental and the excellent vacation rental will widen, as people spread the word about their experience.

So, even if you are doing OK, don’t get complacent. Why not take a regular ten minutes out every day to have a cup of coffee and think about the bigger picture.

A new book released this week  Manual For Vacation Rental Owners – 100 Tips for Successful Renting is a great source of inspiration. You will be surprised how easy it can be to go from “good” to “great”.

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