Bettlee

Hi, I've decided to rent out my apartment in Los Boliches, Costa del sol starting next year, I've registered on a couple of sites ownersdirect.co.uk etc but I was wondering if anyone has any useful advice re promotion marketing it etc?!

Thanks

noelrosie

If you quote a link to your personalwebsite, is that not classed as advertising, which I understood was forbidden on this forum.
We use www.ownersdirect.co.uk for our property near Denia and have a very good service from this company!

spain

sure a mod will be along to delete v soon !

spain

there are lots and lots of free sites you can advertise on, just takes man hours sitting in front of the pc.....find where your competetors advertise and do the same

steviedeluxe

Yes, the Mods will probably edit your post and take away the link.
What you can do is put a link to your site in your profile (go to My Profile -> Edit Profile). Then when you talk about this subject those interested can look at your link, without it being direct spam/advertising. Although it's not my property,my profile links to a website I maintain for friends that have a holiday home in northern Spain, and every so often someone will look up the website. I think the rules are quite right here. If we had links all over the place going to posters' businesses the place would change from being a useful talk forum to being a advertising listing.

noelrosie

Agree with Spain ... work out what your competitors charge and what facilities they offer (ideally, match or better them) then use one of the big websites to promote your rental.

steviedeluxe

In Google you can bring back sites that link to a particular website. For example if one of your competitors had the website www.greenhotelmijas.com you'd search in Google with "link:greenhotelmijas.com" Main drawback with this is it can be a few weeks out of date.

spain

yes, thats what I was getting at !

Bettlee

Ok fair enough this is my first time posting anything like this so I apologise thanks for the advice

Bettlee

Soz!!

Casa Santo Estevo

You have to think what you want from your property, what market you wish to cater for, the price you want to pay for a listing ect.
I write on a forum for vacation home owners and can assure you that each listing site has its +/-. Never list of a free site as they do not work.
Further advise-- for you and others wwho are thinking about letting out property.

I hope you realise you have may have tax and insurance problems (public liability etc) to overcome.
I have looked at your website and see you do airport transfers. Again what are the legalities of what you are doing?
If your contract is only in English and you have any problems with clients then it will not stand up in a Spanish court, you need to have a translation done.
if you want to go "big time" then these and other questions should be addressed.

Bettlee

Thanks for the input, this is currently our permanent home and the idea is to rent it out for a few months next year so we can escape somewhere else!. We are currently paying into the system here in Spain but I suppose this extra income is something we maybe will have problems with..... the airport transfers are with another company who currently do this so that part is ok I think?.

Casa Santo Estevo

The transfers seem to be ok that is good as at some airports the authorities and taxi drivers actively look for this sort of thing. I thought there was a thread about it earlier this year.
before you let the place out look for listing sites and see what the market is like, bioth price and facilities..then sit back and wait until cusomers roll in..hopefully.