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  1. Morticia

    Registration / Guest Paperwork

    We had the ‘advantage’ of living in a town where our guests did a lot of shoe shopping. 😉 The boot boxes made great storage for the registration forms. One box/year. I decided we’d saved receipts for long enough and we took ten years’ worth of paper to the shredder. It weighed over 100 pounds...
  2. Morticia

    Registration / Guest Paperwork

    And, once the credit card companies stopped requiring signatures, we stopped asking for them. But, you should check with your state to see if they do require certain info. We’re supposed to be able to produce signed info, either digital or paper. In 18 years no one asked for it. Part of the...
  3. Morticia

    Registration / Guest Paperwork

    What Jim said. Works fine. You don’t need a lawyer. Just don’t sell the info you collect and you’ll be fine. The info we collected was basic: name (s), address, phone, email, credit card, dietary restrictions. Other than dietary restrictions, it’s standard info collected by hotels. We never...
  4. Morticia

    Budget Friendly Bedsheets

    I love the towels! We still had several sets in boxes so I took them with us. No idea what the new owners did with the 3 dozen I left behind.
  5. Morticia

    Budget Friendly Bedsheets

    Ditto about threshold from Target. JCPenney had good sheets, too. Southern Tide is a decent brand that I used to get at BB&B. (They fade pretty quickly, but they were delightfully soft and lots of guests asked where to buy them.) I used to buy one set, wash and dry them, then test run them. If...
  6. Morticia

    Add two more bathrooms?

    It may just be your market that is ok with this, but it’s not standard to have to share a bathroom. We had one room with a detached bath (Not shared) and we finally figured out if it was the absolute cheapest room in town we could book it. So, when the motels were charging $199, we could get...
  7. Morticia

    Selling part B.

    Those people will be tenants. They’ll call you at all hours, while you’re on vacation, while you’re at your grandparent’s funeral, to let you know the shower drain is slow and they don’t like standing in soapy water. We had tenants for four months. They called one Saturday to tell us the lights...
  8. Morticia

    Selling part B.

    At this point in time, that’s a tough question to answer. So many factors come into play. You have a mass exodus from ‘corporate’ jobs going on, you’ve still got a pandemic (Altho, from where I’m sitting, very few travelers are worried about that), you’ve got a nationwide housing shortage, there...
  9. Morticia

    Dumb Question: Broker Commissions

    You can negotiate the commission! Around here (New England) they want 6%.
  10. Morticia

    Arrived 2-11-2022 Great-Grand #2, first girl

    Congrats!
  11. Morticia

    Hope Silverspoon and the rest in the NE are OK!

    14 degrees and sunny here in the great northeast! Another foot of snow! Going to dig out the snowshoes and trek around the college.
  12. Morticia

    Dealing with Fraudulent Bookings

    How the scam usually works is they ask for the money back before you know you’ve been scammed. You refund them and then the actual card holder contacts the credit card company and pulls the same amount back from you. So you’ve now lost the money twice over. Figure it this way—would you offer to...
  13. Morticia

    Hope Silverspoon and the rest in the NE are OK!

    It’s 37 degrees here. All of the weekend snow spent last night sliding off the roof. Digging out again this morning. Looks like rain tomorrow. Ugh.
  14. Morticia

    EV Chargers - anyone else installing these?

    They did plan ahead. They assumed that charger was there for anyone.
  15. Morticia

    Only important to me … are minimoos still a good thing?

    I’m not sure how many you use, but could you buy a box and just bring what you’ll use in a day? Or, bring in a small thermos of cream you keep in your purse? It wouldn’t really need to be a thermos, either. Unless it’s 80 degrees in the office.
  16. Morticia

    Why we closed for the winter

    Totally understand! I was thinking the same last night. It poured where we used to live. It snowed where we are living now. Crazy windy. The sun is out, but yesterday a lot of the town was closed due to the weather.
  17. Morticia

    For the love of all that’s holy…

    @jniles Hi Julie! It wasn’t just one, it was all of them. They are all in the same general location around Hanover, NH. At this point, I’m not going to be able to figure out which ones. I was using a list found on the Dartmouth college website.
  18. Morticia

    For the love of all that’s holy…

    Please do move it up the list. It was so incredibly frustrating. Especially given the rates. No one at the $300/night level should have guests requesting reservations or have their reservation software take over 30 seconds to load. In case anyone is wondering—the slow loading one was...
  19. Morticia

    For the love of all that’s holy…

    …GO! Right now! Try to make a reservation from your website like you’re a guest. Clear your cache first. Yes, I’m trying to make reservations to go somewhere. I may just drive the three hours both ways and forget it. The places below are charging a minimum of $250/night, most were $300+...
  20. Morticia

    Just Set 2022 Rates - A Few Thoughts

    This was a problem we had. We were halfway to the destination stays. We turned away quite a few people who needed only one night on the weekend because their cottage didn’t open up until Saturday and they were driving up, or flying in on Friday. Middle of the week was a lot of one-nighters. For...
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