Tips, insights, and best practices for rental inventory management.
Four of my five properties are in towns with a Tesco Express round the corner. Then there is the barn. A converted agricultural building outside a village with one pub, one church, and a post office that opens four mornings a week. Keeping it stocked is a completely different game and it took me six months to stop winging it.
12 April 2026
After the third complaint about my Nescafe Gold Blend (a guest from Stuttgart called it a personal insult), I started experimenting. Two years and six different setups later, I have landed on one I am mostly happy with at a per-cup cost I can actually sustain.
11 April 2026
When I hired my first turnover cleaner I printed one of those pastel Pinterest checklists. She lasted two turnovers before asking if I had something she could actually follow. I did not. So we built one together over the next month, and two years later it is still laminated to the inside of five cleaning cupboard doors.
10 April 2026
Every March I gut the summer stock from five properties and swap in winter gear. Then I reverse it in September. Then there are the festive extras. It takes about two hours per property, costs about £140 the first year and £40 after that, and it is the single change that stopped me getting three-star reviews about heavy fleece throws in July.
9 April 2026
I tracked every missing item across five properties for twelve months. Some of it was embarrassing, some of it made me laugh, most of it cost more than I expected. Here is the actual list, split by what guests probably took by accident versus the stuff that clearly walked.
8 April 2026
A year of swapping out towels, counting complaints, and watching my laundry costs. The GSM number on the packaging matters more than almost anything else in your bathroom stockpile, and the right answer is probably not what your interior designer told you.
7 April 2026
A missing toilet roll might cost you 50p. The bad review it causes could cost you thousands. Here's the real financial impact of running out of guest essentials.
25 March 2026
Superhosts don't just have nicer properties — they have better systems. Here are 6 inventory habits that separate the top-rated from the rest.
11 March 2026
That spreadsheet you're using for inventory? It's costing you more than you think. Here's the real maths behind manual tracking vs a dedicated tool.
28 February 2026