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Common frauds at holiday rental houses
- By Milan Matchev
- Published 07/28/2008
- Vacation Rental Articles , Travel
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Milan Matchev
CEO and Owner of http://ArrangeYourVacation.com - leading portal for Holiday Homes and author of the book "100 Tips For Successful Renting"
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You have strived and sweat all your life and climbed the ladders of poverty to the sunshine of richness and in the due process you have bought many properties which you thought will help you retire from work in your old age. Since the properties were in great numbers you decided to rent them and kept a manager to look after your establishments, but little did you realized that you have hired a termite which will eat your business of real estate renting, which was to become your old age income has now become a cumbersome.
Like honest people cheats will also be there as are day and night, similarly leave tourist check whether you are not being made a fool by your employees or manager who is quietly enjoying your fruits of success and leaving you with debris and leftovers to chew upon. Some of the common frauds a manager or your employees can performs in the absence of your strict vigilance and firm faith are listed below.
1. You may think yourself to be very clever and intelligent and rely on the register book which you check every morning for the tourist count at your place, but let me assure you are unaware of the people who come and dwell at your spare cottage during the night and want a one night stand accommodation with a little discount by your manager they will be more than happy to see off the proper register documentation. In this way both the manager and customer are benefited and you are left simply sneezing in the morning. A good suggestion will be to raid your place at regular intervals or perhaps if possible place a computer television camera outside the doors of the office and rooms.
2. Your manger at your vacation rented cottage or building can also fool you by giving the wrong details of the tourists present in the house, for example if a tourist bus comes for renting some rooms at your real estate for $500 / 30 guests and at the same time a couple also approaches paying $100 for a room logically the entire property should
be booked by the tour only, but with a little adjustments a spare room can always be vacant for the new couples you get paid $500 in the morning assuming the two couples to be one of the members from the tour and are happy little did you realized that you have left that extra $100 bill in the pockets of your manager along with his salary and benefits.
3. Ok, now you have become extra vigilant, but soon realize that the number of tourists renting your property has gravely decreased in time and your neighboring rental house is always full and fully occupied, why neither you nor anyone can guess, but have you checked whether your manager has changed the game plan and acting as a commission agent for other rental homes sitting and smiling comfortably in the chair you provided him and driving all the traffic generated by your money and innovation to your rivals homeland.
4. It is better to check your belongings such as watches, DVD players, the diesel in the generator room or simply petty taps in your bathroom, are they well placed your manager might not all just be a manager only, he can sell precious things placed in your house for beautification, indeed he can blame the previous tourists for the misdeeds, doing regular checks in the house is good exercise in order to prevent such activities, you should clearly inform your employees, that since they are responsible for the look after of the property, things stolen will be bought again into he house by their salaries only.
These were just glimpses of the common frauds that you can possibly face while trying to rely completely on your manger for your vacation rentals, lest you have much work in hand apart from looking after your property. The theme was not to generate suspicion into your minds, but to encourage you to be more careful and just an extra vigilant.
Read more about the vacation renal scams and comment on them on our forum: http://vacationrental-bo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15
Like honest people cheats will also be there as are day and night, similarly leave tourist check whether you are not being made a fool by your employees or manager who is quietly enjoying your fruits of success and leaving you with debris and leftovers to chew upon. Some of the common frauds a manager or your employees can performs in the absence of your strict vigilance and firm faith are listed below.
1. You may think yourself to be very clever and intelligent and rely on the register book which you check every morning for the tourist count at your place, but let me assure you are unaware of the people who come and dwell at your spare cottage during the night and want a one night stand accommodation with a little discount by your manager they will be more than happy to see off the proper register documentation. In this way both the manager and customer are benefited and you are left simply sneezing in the morning. A good suggestion will be to raid your place at regular intervals or perhaps if possible place a computer television camera outside the doors of the office and rooms.
2. Your manger at your vacation rented cottage or building can also fool you by giving the wrong details of the tourists present in the house, for example if a tourist bus comes for renting some rooms at your real estate for $500 / 30 guests and at the same time a couple also approaches paying $100 for a room logically the entire property should
3. Ok, now you have become extra vigilant, but soon realize that the number of tourists renting your property has gravely decreased in time and your neighboring rental house is always full and fully occupied, why neither you nor anyone can guess, but have you checked whether your manager has changed the game plan and acting as a commission agent for other rental homes sitting and smiling comfortably in the chair you provided him and driving all the traffic generated by your money and innovation to your rivals homeland.
4. It is better to check your belongings such as watches, DVD players, the diesel in the generator room or simply petty taps in your bathroom, are they well placed your manager might not all just be a manager only, he can sell precious things placed in your house for beautification, indeed he can blame the previous tourists for the misdeeds, doing regular checks in the house is good exercise in order to prevent such activities, you should clearly inform your employees, that since they are responsible for the look after of the property, things stolen will be bought again into he house by their salaries only.
These were just glimpses of the common frauds that you can possibly face while trying to rely completely on your manger for your vacation rentals, lest you have much work in hand apart from looking after your property. The theme was not to generate suspicion into your minds, but to encourage you to be more careful and just an extra vigilant.
Read more about the vacation renal scams and comment on them on our forum: http://vacationrental-bo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15