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COTTAGE OF THE WEEK

A Must Read For Cottage Owners Who Are Thinking Of Renting Out Their Cottages.

** Cottage Owners **
June to September is the time to list your cottage for
the 2009 rental season. Winter pictures on a summer
rental page is not good so it is most important for us to
take summer pictures before the leaves are off the
trees for insertion on your future summer rental page
For additional information, call Murray at 705-330-7333.

The booking season for summer 2009 will begin on January 1st 2009. Nevertheless, Spring, summer and fall 2008 is the
time to arrange for us to view
your cottage for rental in
summer 2009. Summer rentals
are possible by listing in spring 2009 but the longer your cottage
is on our web site, the better the chance of success. Call today !!!
wrd cottage rental agency representing over 170 privately owned cottages available for rent weekly in the summer and shorter periods in the fall, winter and spring in the haliburton highlands, muskoka and kawartha regions in central ontario canada.


Call 705-330-7333
and ask for Murray.

" We would like to thank WRD so much for all your assistance and professionalism during the last 8 years. Your clients have been respectful of our properties and over the years we have had a chance to meet some lovely people who have stayed in
our cabins. You run a first rate service with a friendly staff and
we appreciated working with you all. "

B & K - Switzerland



Dear Cottage Owner,

More and more cottage owners are looking at cottage rental as a way to defray expenses.  If you are reading this page and you own a cottage, you know how expensive your cottage can be.  There always seems to be things that need repair, or furniture that needs to be replaced, or docks that need work, taxes to be paid, mortgages that need attention and the list goes on and on.  You are not alone, everyone who owns a cottage needs some financial assistance from time to time and this is the very reason that cottage rental is becoming so popular.

When you think of cottage rental, there are 3 routes that you can go ...

1) You can rent to family and friends.
2) You can advertise your cottage in the Toronto Star or the Globe and Mail.
3) Or you can have WRD Cottage Rental or another agency handle the rental process.

It is interesting to note that a lot of owners hate to rent to family and friends because (we have heard this so many times), " family and friends are the worst renters we have ever had".  So what better way to handle this situation than to be able to say that "the cottage is handled by an agency and it is now out of our hands".

If you advertise your cottage yourself, you will have people calling you all hours of the day and night asking about your cottage and there is the expense of advertising which can get rather costly if you are using a major newspaper.

As a rental agency we know the cottage rental business and we must be doing things right considering our experience and expansion.

In all honesty, I don't envy your position of trying to pick the right method of marketing your cottage because there is a plethora of cottage rental agencies out there who claim to be the very best and only charge a few dollars to list with them. Well, the bottom line is, "you get what you pay for". If you pay $20 - $100 to list your cottage on a web site, you are going to end up doing all the work, guaranteed.  

So why is it wise to have WRD Cottage Rental Agency represent your property?

Here are a few compelling reasons ...

* You never hear or come in contact with the renter unless you want to. (most important)

* We will get you more for your cottage than you would renting it out yourself. (most important)

* We handle the rental transaction from beginning to end. (most important)

* We accept all major credit cards. (most important)

* We know how to professionally screen the rental applicants. (Most important, indeed vital)

* We handle all problems that occur during the rental. (most important)

* Payment to you the owner is guaranteed as we receive the full rental amount prior to the arrival of the renter. (most important)

* The owner of WRD Cottage Rental Agency is a professional photographer and the web site designer. As such we publish to the internet on a daily and sometime hourly basis to ensure the accuracy of information on our web site. Other agencies can take a week or more to make changes to your web page.
 



* The agency is open every day including weekends with the exception of statutory holidays.  In other words we are totally committed to doing the very best job for you and our rental clients throughout the year.

* The agency is fully computerized and able to take calls 24 / 7 via, phone, fax and email.

* Another important point is that over 65% of our business is repeat business. Repeat business only happens when there is a happy customer.
Visit our testimonial page, the emails on that page are as received, guaranteed.

* We do not rent to teenagers and we are very very careful of the 20 to 30 year old party crowd.

* And last but certainly not least, cottage rental is the only thing we do at WRD Cottage Rental.
The entire staff lives in cottage country. We are not real estate agents, we are not interested in renting camps, resorts, lodges, bed and breakfasts, RV's, trailer parks, commercial space or apartments. We are not building contractors, we operate only in Ontario and only in Central Ontario. We work, live, eat and sleep cottage rental. We are central Ontario's cottage country specialists and we are passionate about what we do.

The process of listing your property with our agency is painless and will take less than an hour.  The process is as follows ...

* We visit your cottage.
* An agreement is signed for us to represent your property in the marketplace.
* We take a full set of pictures of your cottage.
* We design your web page and publish your web page to the internet within 3 days of visiting your cottage.
* You tell us what weeks are available for rental.
* Our mandate is to then find suitable and qualified renters for your property.

Having said all of this, timing is most important.  This year the booking season started for this coming summer way back in mid October.  The demand for quality cottages is far greater than the availability so our regular customers are coming to us earlier than ever before to ensure that they find the very best cottage for their family.

Therefore, the time to plan your entry into the cottage rental market is during the summer and early fall of the previous year.  Having said this however, we take on new cottages throughout the year.   In addition it is most important for us to have summer pictures of your cottage before the leaves fall from the trees.  Needless to say, a winter picture of your cottage is not good on our summer web pages.

In Summary

To list your cottage for rental in 2009, call us as soon as you can and at your convenience we will visit your cottage, take the pictures needed, design your web page and then go about our business of finding suitable, appropriate, qualified renters for your cottage.  We await your call and thank you for giving us due consideration.

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COTTAGE OF THE WEEK