• Introduction
• Why Me?
• Location & Market
• The Property
• Finances
• Checklist

Starting Up

Congratulations! If you are thinking about starting up a holiday home, or have decided to take the plunge, you are on the verge of an exciting and profitable venture!

This HowToHolidayCottage website is dedicated to you. We hope that you will find all the information you need to get up and running and to keep going! If not, then let us know.

These ‘Starting Up’ pages are designed to help you to look at the issues that you will need to think about when deciding whether or not to start up a holiday home.

These issues are:

• is it right for me?
• finding the right the location
• choosing your target market
• choosing a property
• asking 'does it make financial sense?'

Finally, we have provided you with a checklist of topics you will need to look at to get your holiday cottage up and running.

To find out more, select a topic from the links at the top of this page.