All Forum Posts by: Ken Boone

We are not pet friendly. As long as I can get my target numbers without being pet friendly that is what I will continue to do. 

What I have found is that like cabins, one with a view and the other with a pool, that the pool cabin will significantly outperform the view cabin, all other things being equal. There will always be exceptions of course.

Yea I think the contacts you get from Facebook are the ones who want a "deal" and when they find out you are market price they move on.

If you are going to do a game room and want it to move the needle then you need to really do it.  Just adding a ping pong table in the garage is not going to get you there. You need to decorate it, load it up with arcade games, put in a sleeper sofa across from a big screen with an Xbox or PS5 attached.  I have Xbox units installed in all my cabins and the kids love it. 

If you have room put up a projector screen / projector that is opposite the sleeper sofa and hook up the game console to that.  How many kids get to play minecraft or COD on a big projector screen right? Then decorate the place up, nice lighting, signs, etc.

Then you can move the needle. 

I would consider bringing in 1 internet feed and then splitting it out into 2 different wifi SSIDs. One for unit A and one for unit B. 

Yea that is pretty crazy. As far as 15 - 18% moving out of Florida. That is probably similar to all the people that say if Trump is elected they will leave the country.  Yea, nobody ever leaves...

What I am wondering is if this is a knee jerk reaction to Hurricane Helene.  Even with all the automated messages in place, we had a ton of guests trying to contact us about their bookings at our cabins in the Smokies. We were without power in a mess here in SC. I already live out in the country so cell service isn't great, but then they lost a number of cell towers and since internet was down just about everywhere, the cell towers were overloaded. We could not respond in a normal time frame that we usually respond in.

So just wondering if guests were trying to contact hosts to find out if their rental was still available etc.. and not getting responses and guests were getting panicky.  I dunno just a thought. I could see how lots of hosts would not have had the ability to respond in a timely fashion. I have a daughter with some health issues and has a strict diet regime of prepared foods. My focus was on doing everything I could to preserve her food, not on responding to guests for the first couple of day while we were without power. I'm sure others in the affected areas were focused on more serious problems as well.

Just a thought.

 Yes it takes about 4 hours to reach temp as long as you have a 240 volt connection to the hot tub.  If you have a 110 volt connection you should consider replacing.