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    Keurig, or any other one-serving-at-a-time coffee maker

    Well, our laundry room was converted from a back porch - you access it from the kitchen through old back door. Get this - no heat int he kitchen, but a big old heater in the laundry room. Like I'm going to stand in there long enough to turn it on. Yikes. I can fold somewhere else! I have...
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    Keurig, or any other one-serving-at-a-time coffee maker

    We have this issue in spades. Our particular (historic) house has no heat in the kitchen (unless you're cooking). On cold days/evenings, I've been heating the oven to it's lowest temp, turning it off, then popping in the plates/mugs to warm. It's really helped with dinner, and I thought it might...
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    Morning chit chat TV

    I wondered if antennas would still work since the FCC changed the TV signals (no techie here, please, no tomatoes if one has nothing to do with the other). Good to know.
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    Morning chit chat TV

    Okay, I'm relieved. I really didn't want to add the aural chaos to a busy morning. One thing for us, though. We don't have cable/satellite in the rooms yet. We didn't want the tech guy drilling willy-nilly in a historic house, so cable will have to wait until DH can do it to our...
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    Morning chit chat TV

    The GMA post made me wonder this. I do not watch TV first thing in the morning. I just can't process all that stimulation - barking noise, commercials, changing images....I know it's bizarre, it's just way more than I want to process at that hour. I want to check the weather & maybe the news...
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    A slow start

    Actually, I am fairly certain they paid taxes - one of the two is an accountant. In fact, he shared with me a couple thoughts about taxes that made me smile (nothing strictly illegal), although I'm one of those "good girls" who will do what our account tells us to do. Anyway, they just seemed...
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    A slow start

    Mm. Yes. We were all ready to do this. WE were going to send out a chirpy "new ownership" psotcard with a phone number and web address. To make a long story short, the previous owners didn't do that sort of record keeping (perhaps a hint of why they didn't want to sell turnkey). They've offered...
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    A slow start

    I don't think it was *their* intention to pressure us. We went looking for a turnkey sale, but this house turned out to be the one for us. The pressure came in after I read one of the room journals, and commented on a guest comment from Christmas Eve. The wife half of the former owners kind of...
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    A slow start

    Thanks JB. Re the hall baths - DH & I were thinking almost exactly the same as you all. Here's what stopped us: The former owners didn't live there (as I mentioned), so they only kept one small room as innkeeper quarters and used a hall bathroom that was also available for guests' convenience...
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    A slow start

    Four guest rooms. Two have king sized beds and private baths, the other two (one has a king bed, the other two twins) use hall baths. The two hall baths are set up as Men's & Women's. We have toyed with the notion of removing the gender specific labels, and just assigning one to each of the...
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    A slow start

    We changd the name. We had a really cool name we loved...but then we thought, what will people search for when they're trying to find that BnB that changed it's name? Hence, the new name (Inn at Blooming Grove). I don't know how how long the BnB was closed, or how that worked. The previous...
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    A slow start

    Okay. House (sign is not up yet in this pic): Guess what. We're in a parade this Saturday. <ulp> Got an email last Saturday - wanna be in the Christmas parade? No float necessary - just decorate your vehicle. Thank goodness Vistaprint does expedited shipping. The magnet signs...
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    A slow start

    Yep, my real name. I wasn't thinking about being on the DL when I signed up - just hearing from those living it. Now, in spite of the unusual spelling of our surname, there are several Jane Does (*not* my real name LOL) if you google my first & last name or even search on FB. In fact, I got a...
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    A slow start

    ... is what we're having, and turning out to be quite good. DH & I have "officially" been innkeepers for almost a month. By official, what I mean is we are accepting reservations, and actually had guests last weekend. Not everything is in place as we would like, but we'll get there. The guests...
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    Breakfast times - snooze, lose, or door number three.

    Not sure if this is the best sub forum for this. Had an interesting conversation with a lady at church yesterday. She & her DH stay "often" (her words, I don't know them well) at BnBs. She said at the last one they visited (she didn't say the name, I didn't ask), breakfast was served promptly at...
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    Freezer

    Question: How many of you have a deep freeze? A unit separate from the refrigerator? If you have one, do you mind if I ask if it's upright or chest, and how many cubic feet? Oh - and if you dn't mind, how many rooms in your inn? (Just trying to compare apples to apples. We were thinking we'd...
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    Library?

    Do you have one, or a collection of media items you allow guests to borrow? We visited a BnB that had one, they allowed guests to borrow books to read while visitng and DVDs to play on in room players. They also had board games in there, if I remember correctly. At first I thought this was a...
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    Amenites for children

    I've been pondering this thread. We've spent a very decent amount of time on the road since our oldest (almost 7) was born. Most of what's above I agree is helpful (apck-n-play, high chair/booster). I;m trying to think of the things that were helpful that I didn't expect to be provided but were...
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    New Dues Structure for PAII

    Wow. I joined 4 months ago, and after three follow-up phone calls, I still haven't seen a magazine. I was hoping I was the exception, slipping through the cracks, but hearing two different innkeepers say what I was feeling (exactly *what* am I getting for my money?) isn't very reassuring.
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    Housekeeping Challenge 101

    Washing soda is sodium carbonate, not to be confused with baking soda, which is sodium bicarbonate. You can buy washing soda from various sources online, including SoapsGoneBuy.com, and Greatcleansers.com. I've never used it myself, but it's supposed to be great.
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