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    Guests Smoke Weed In Room

    Thoroughly enjoyed seeing this thread and so many old friends again! Several have been gone for years, but I still remember them well, and miss them.
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    Four Years After Innkeepers Started Complaining, Boo Finally Realizes There's A Problem

    Well, it's Bookin. That's why I dropped them years ago. But I'm more into easy for me vs. bookings at any cost. Life is good in north Arkansas/southern Missouri!
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    Retiring the airpots

    I'm retiring Nespresso and switching to L'Or. Great and a good deal cheaper.
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    Additional Guest Fee

    AMEN!
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    Additional Guest Fee

    I have a BBQ grill out back, available for guests if they want. Had a guest leave a note the other day saying grill needs to be cleaned. I decided, easier to just remove it! Very few use it anyway, and I'm about making things easier for me and my housekeepers. Similarly, I had a guest through...
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    Additional Guest Fee

    Yes I was shocked at how much they cost. And they take quite a bit of space even when closed up. I prefer the air mattresses. Only put them out when needed, which, thankfully, is rarely.
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    Additional Guest Fee

    Good luck!
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    Giving OTAs the Boot

    No, nothing was on the books for the future from them. I got VERY few bookings through them, and when I got one it was about more trouble than it was worth. I didn't enjoy working with them.
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    Would You Recommend I Go Into Competition With You?

    After I responded that business has not fully come back from the pandemic, she wrote this to me: I did not comment on the idiotic question about covering costs, but did tell her that there's almost no tourism here, that most of our business comes from funerals, reunions, weddings, etc., and...
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    Would You Recommend I Go Into Competition With You?

    Just got a message through Air from someone who has 7 acres near my town and was just asking how business is and whether it would be worth their while to open an Air accommodation on their property, asking how demand is, here, for something like that. I answered honestly, saying business really...
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    10-Year Smoke Detectors

    Mine were like that, but the central backup battery still had to be replaced every couple of years (the kind of battery like a computer UPS uses), the company that maintained the system was a hour drive away, and I had to pay an $85/year monitoring charge. I finally cut the cord and went with...
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    10-Year Smoke Detectors

    Yes. My post is not intended to be about the detector life, but the battery life. I think a lot of folks still are using smoke detectors that use standard, replaceable, AA batteries that need to be changed yearly. I wanted them to know there are detectors available now that have a 10-year...
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    10-Year Smoke Detectors

    I recently discovered these smoke detectors with a 10-year battery. No more having to remember to change batteries every year! After 10 years it will begin to beep once every 60 seconds to notify you that it's time to replace it. They are not expensive. After 10 years just pitch it and install...
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    10 Year Anniversary

    I've found that most of them never get used. Locals already have a place to stay. So I get by with giving a valuable gift appreciated by the charity (to auction off), and it often doesn't cost me anything! So there's that! In fact, as Christmas bonuses last December, a local business with 40...
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    10 Year Anniversary

    In April I will have been doing this 10 years. Should I do something special? I don't see any benefit to me in giving some sort of discount for this occasion. "They" (current guests) didn't do anything to earn a discount. So what? Just try to get some local newspaper publicity/feature story...
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    Single Night Surcharge?

    I charge $14 extra for a one-night stay. Makes be about $1000/year. In 10 years, ($10,000) nobody has complained about the extra charge.
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    Cancellation (and asking for future credit)

    Keeping up with future credits is more work that I want to do! I stick to my cancellation policy, always. They agree to it when they make the reservation. It's a contract, both ways. I agree to hold the room for them and turn down anybody else wanting it. They agree to pay me. If they cancel...
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    Giving OTAs the Boot

    I used VRBO and Booking for a while, but didn't care for how they wanted total control of everything. With Booking you couldn't even edit your room descriptions. You had to email them and they made the changes they wanted to make. So I dropped them and am glad I did. (But maybe I'm too...
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    Additional Guest Fee

    Absolutely. If there are 2 guests in a room and they don't want to share the king sized bed, they'll pay extra for me to set up an air mattress, sheets, blanket and pillow. It's a lot of extra trouble, and charging for it only helps me feel a little bit better!
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    Additional Guest Fee

    I used to have sofa beds, but a) the "works" chew holes in the sheets when people fold up and unfold the bed with the sheets on it and b) the "works" stopped working in all my sofa beds after about 3 years. They pretty much fell apart. Maybe I was supposed to oil them. I switched to air...
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