Susan
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My husband, Andy, and I live in the second unit of our Beach Delight duplex stilt home in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. We formerly owned a lakefront property in Vermont that we also offered as a vacation rental. It's a wonderful feeling to see our guests enjoy the magnificence of the places we live!
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Andy and I love salad bars. Charley's Boat House and Grill seems to be the only restaurant in Fort Myers Beach that offers one. The salad bar offers quite a variety of veggies, fruits, dressings and other traditional salad bar fare.
If you're trying to work away from listing with an OTA (Online Travel Agency) site or you just want a Web presence that you fully control for your vacation rental site, you can easily create your own site.
What is WordPress?
Google Analytics is a way to keep track of how your Web site is being searched for and accessed. Information about where the users are located, what devices they're using, what pages they're interacting with and how they find your Web site is...
You'll probably want one or more email accounts associated with your new Web site. Examples would be YourName@YourDomainName.com and Info@YourDomainName.com and Reservations@YourDomainName.com
To save effort on setting up your new Web site, you can embed items that you already have on your Houfy listing. When editing your Houfy listing, you can find some items have an "embed" button. When selecting the "embed" button, Houfy will display...
I've used both Hostgator and SiteGround. I don't have personal experience with GoDaddy, but I can say that I haven't heard many good things about them.
Your domain name will be the URL that you use to direct users to learn about your property and to have them book with you. The domain name should be shorter, somewhat unique and easy to share. Preferably, you can create a brand name associated with...
In order to recover your credit card costs in your rental pricing, you need to understand the true cost of accepting credit cards. In this story, I'll explain how to determine the true cost of the credit card fee relative to your rental rate and how...
Whether you are sending email invoices through Square or receiving payment through Houfy using the Square's eCommerce integration, all transactions will be visible from your Square account dashboard. i.e. Sign into your Square account to see the...
Items are what you're selling. You assign prices to these items. You can assign tax rates to these items too. These items and their associated tax rates are associated with the Square Location you assign them.
This is where you'll add info about your business including Bank Accounts and Location Details.
Here are Square terms that you'll want to understand when used in your Vacation Rental account. You can make adjustments if you're using Square for another type of business:
I'll be creating additional posts that describe how to configure your Square account. This post is Step 1: Signing up with Square.
We provide our guests an ice cream maker at The Green Cottage in Grand Isle, Vermont. The freezing can will be in the freezer and the ice cream maker in the pantry. You can check out our blog post showing you all the kitchen equipment you'll need and...
The owners of the wildly popular Blue Paddle Bistro in South Hero, Vermont have opened a summer satellite sensation, The Blue Paddle on the Bay. The food truck kitchen offers grilled items like beef burgers, hot dogs, black bean burgers and...
We often take time to do things on vacation that we never find time for in our normal day-to-day life. This may include picking wildflowers along the roadside. Somehow these roadside "weeds" look very pretty collected and displayed in a vase on your...
Niquette Bay State Park is fun hiking spot on the shore of Lake Champlain in Colchester, Vermont. It's only about a 20 minute drive for our Green Cottage guests in Grand Isle, Vermont.
The free open-air tram is in service again for peak season in Fort Myers Beach. We're in year 3 of service and there are new changes to the schedule (2020) as compared to the previous years. The service runs from January 5, 2020 through May 1, 2020...