When you tell people you own aerviced accommodations you’re usually met with the same response; the eyeroll, sigh and the sarcastic ‘you must work hard then’, which, in a way is true and we love being able to meet our guests needs. However, sometimes, it’s not all a bed of roses.
Just like owning a house, things can go terribly wrong and any breakages mean you need to get it repaired before the next guest or risk losing out on income to pay the mortgage or bills on said property.
Guests usually hire out your property for a number of reasons; A romantic getaway, work, some family time or even a friends get away which 9/10 times is great and what the property get’s used for, however there’s a few people who’ll go overboard and at Baytree Property we’ve heard it all.
The damage guests can cause to a property knows no bounds, we only spoke to a serviced accommodation owner who had £10k worth of damage done to his property. Windows were smashed, doors off their hinges, décor broken and floorboards ripped up, we won’t get into detail about what was found in the bathroom, we’ll leave that to your imagination. He said to us he was in the middle of installing security cameras outside his property as he had a lot of guests recently book for 2 people and clearly more people had stayed. When he brought the damage up with the site he had his property on they couldn’t help him, the guest had said that someone had broken in and that they weren’t to blame because they didn’t end up staying there that night.
The owner did manage to fix the property and got in touch with us when we asked if he'd managed to come back from this, he said; 'I did, I lost out on a lot of income when this happened to me, I worked relentlessly for a week getting the property back to standard but when I did, and got it back up and running again, i managed to make my money back. With the added security of the cameras that are now up and running, we know exactly who's going in and out the house. This issue hasn't stopped us from running our serviced accommodation but it has made us more aware of security needed for the property.'
We count ourselves lucky, the only damage to our property was our radiator cover which was pulled off the wall and broken into pieces. We replaced this quickly so we didn't have a to cancel any bookings.
I don’t want to sit here and give horror stories about being a serviced accommodation owner because the above happens less than 1% of the time. More often then not the guests are lovely people who just want a home away from home, they communicate well and use it for it’s intended purpose; a home away from home.
Here at Baytree Property we welcome guests from all over the world, we want to show them what Chester has to offer and we want our guests to enjoy our property which is why we’re available for every question and query our guests may have. We’re only a message or a phone call away.
We enjoy or role as a serviced accommodation provider for Chester, North Wales and the North West and we look forward to be able to provide more properties for a relaxing and fun time away from the stresses of everyday life.
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