What amenities are renters looking for in a summer/fall rental?

lawn psycho · 05-04-2011, 08:07 AM

In many cases the camps or houses we've looked to rent are TOO BIG for what we need. Thus, we use hotels but often times would like to rent a small camp, etc. Unfortunately the houses often require full weekly rentals rather than weekends. May not work for your business model of wanting full weeks rent but for us, a smaller place with short term weekend rental is ideal. Most places are too big for what we want as the idea is to get AWAY from people, not lug all the drunk uncles and cousins along with us

On average we stay about 10-14 nights on winni every summer and we come over on Friday night and leave sunday after the day on the water. Edit: The hotel nights are just for over nighting. We spend what more than 14 days in NH

Amenities: Grill, refrigerator, microwave, wi-fi, and KING SIZE bed is always a huge plus (once you own one you understand how hard it is to go backwards). Could care less about hot tub used by multitudes of people(gross).

Big chairs with ottomans to kick feet up at end of day. Gas fireplace for those cool nights would be nice feature that we would use.

Having some beach cruiser bikes or other toys for people to use is a big plus as well.

Lots of kitchen utensils and a large kitchen table come in handy.

Those are the thoughts off the top of my head. We rent large beach houses in the Outer Banks every couple years as a family reunion and these are the things we appreciate having around. The goal is to spend the LEAST amount of time in the house as possible

05-04-2011, 08:07 AM	#3
lawn psycho Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: On the move... Posts: 987 Thanks: 113 Thanked 248 Times in 133 Posts	In many cases the camps or houses we've looked to rent are TOO BIG for what we need. Thus, we use hotels but often times would like to rent a small camp, etc. Unfortunately the houses often require full weekly rentals rather than weekends. May not work for your business model of wanting full weeks rent but for us, a smaller place with short term weekend rental is ideal. Most places are too big for what we want as the idea is to get AWAY from people, not lug all the drunk uncles and cousins along with us On average we stay about 10-14 nights on winni every summer and we come over on Friday night and leave sunday after the day on the water. Edit: The hotel nights are just for over nighting. We spend what more than 14 days in NH Amenities: Grill, refrigerator, microwave, wi-fi, and KING SIZE bed is always a huge plus (once you own one you understand how hard it is to go backwards). Could care less about hot tub used by multitudes of people(gross). Big chairs with ottomans to kick feet up at end of day. Gas fireplace for those cool nights would be nice feature that we would use. Having some beach cruiser bikes or other toys for people to use is a big plus as well. Lots of kitchen utensils and a large kitchen table come in handy. Those are the thoughts off the top of my head. We rent large beach houses in the Outer Banks every couple years as a family reunion and these are the things we appreciate having around. The goal is to spend the LEAST amount of time in the house as possible Last edited by lawn psycho; 05-05-2011 at 02:46 PM.

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