Tips, insights, and best practices for rental inventory management.
I set up Subscribe and Save subscriptions for 23 consumable lines across four properties. Here's the full setup, which items work, and which ones I still order manually.
19 June 2026
Guests and thermostats don't mix. Four winters of energy bills taught me that. Here's what I installed, what it saved, and what I got completely wrong.
19 June 2026
One smoke alarm on every storey, CO detector in any room with a gas appliance — that's been the law since October 2022. Here's the full setup I now run across five properties.
18 June 2026
Two years, five properties, three platforms. Here's which one fills first, which one attracts the best guests, and which one I nearly walked away from.
18 June 2026
A three-star review over a cold duvet taught me to stop defaulting to 10.5 tog year-round. Here's what I use now across five properties with different insulation types.
17 June 2026
Three years in, I filed my first STR insurance claim. It took six weeks and £480 in interim costs to teach me what my policy actually covers — and what it doesn't.
17 June 2026
I fitted Minut in four flats after a neighbour complaint in Edinburgh. Here's what it catches, what it misses, and whether the monthly sub pays for itself.
16 June 2026
I replaced four bath mats in one week after thinking they'd last two years. Here's what GSM means in practice and which anti-slip backing survives 40 hot washes.
16 June 2026
Twelve months, three approaches, five properties. The revenue gap between PriceLabs and my own gut-feel pricing was bigger than I wanted to admit.
15 June 2026