 | | | | | | Start > Make profitable your property | | | | | Make profitable your property |  | | | SERVIHOME offers, FREE of charge, a sample or a copy of the contract for holiday bookings and a bonus sample for reservations. The contract is in Spanish and in accordance to Spanish laws. If in case you would like to use the contract in another country, you would have to adapt it to the leasing laws of that specific country, in which you rent your property from. | | | | Dear owner, in this section of the site, we would like to introduce our rental system between individuals. Thanks to the Internet, you can rent out your home direct, without any intermediaries. This creates many advantages when it comes down to profiting from your home. The main advantages are: | | | |  | becoming acquainted with the clients who come to your home, | | | | | supervise the bookings, | | | | | set the rates and conditions of the rental, | | | | | and gain more profit than renting out through an intermediary, | | | | | being able to put aside a few weeks for yourself or your friends, | | | | | nor feel held to any temporary contracts with intermediaries involved. | | |
| | | We welcome you to try our system and wish you success on your reservations. | | | Before adding your Ad: | | | | | Look at other Ads as examples to follow. Look at the photos, the characteristics and prices of your area. | | | | | On a piece of paper, write down the characteristics of your house, interior and exterior, its location, the proximity to other well-known areas. Seek information to this respect. | | | | | Get a digital camera and take many photos of your house from various angles. Try to choose a sunny day and the nicest images. | | | | | Take shots from the villa and away from the villa. Take exterior and interior photos. Exterior: garden, garage, pool, gymnasium, etc…Interior: dinning room, living room, bedrooms, bathrooms, solarium, etc…Keep them saved in your computer in a standard form that will allow for its insertion on to the Ad. | | | | | Decide on the time frame for renting. If you want to put aside a specific week for yourself or your family during the season, do not include it in the calendar. | | | | | Keep your credit card valid and on hand. | | |
| | | Click on to Servihome and insert your Ad. | | Revise and update the available weeks. | | | In your home: | | | | | Make sure that everything is functioning correctly, doors, faucets, blinds, door handles, etc...
Replace old appliances. Provide dishware and furniture necessary for Clients. | | | | | Make an inventory list of items and furniture to preserve their original condition at the end of each stay. Attach a copy at the beginning with a copy of the contract that will be given to the Client. | | | | | Install a television satellite that will allow Clients to watch TV in their own native language. | | | | | Keep the children in mind. Keep all type of security at hand to prevent accidents. Keep a crib or a fold-up bed at hand. | | | | | Change the locks of your house and preserve them after the rental, that way no one will have a copy of the original keys. | | | | | Contract with the insurance of its house the clause of vacacional renting. | | | | | Organize who will do the check-ins and check-outs, as well as the changing of linens. | | |
| | | From here on: | | | | | keep in mind that the reservations are from one Saturday to another. Check-ins are made in the afternoon and check-outs are in the morning. | | | | | The weekend starts Friday night and ends Sunday afternoon. | | | | | You will receive e-mail messages regularly, which you should always respond to in regard to reservations. | | | | | You should set-up a payment procedure and a contract for both parties. | | | | | Take care of greeting and accommodating your Clients, as well as providing them with a telephone number they can contact you with. | | | | | On the day of arrival, go over details of the house and describe how to use the electric thermostat or the water and gas valves. | | | | | Leave tourist information and recommend good restaurants and hot spots. | | | | | Write up a Client satisfaction questionnaire in regard to the accommodations in order to improve the quality of your property for future Clients or for the following year. This will allow you to increase your rates based on the renovation or modifications of the property. | | | | Publish your Ad | |
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