Tips, insights, and best practices for rental inventory management.
I co-host two Edinburgh flats for other owners. The revenue split took six weeks to negotiate properly. The quarterly tax paperwork took longer to figure out than the split itself.
8 October 2026
I sent my accountant a shoebox of receipts in January. She spent twice as long on my file. Here's the monthly 30-minute system I've run ever since — with the FHL changes from April 2025 factored in.
7 October 2026
Airbnb removed host-set security deposits from most listings. I've been managing guest damage risk across five properties without one for over a year. Here's what I actually do instead.
7 October 2026
I've had curtains mould in six weeks and a screen smashed by the third guest. Here's the maths, the brands, and what I now put in every new bathroom across five properties.
6 October 2026
A guest left a review mentioning 'weak shower'. It wasn't the boiler — it was limescale blocking a two-year-old shower head. Here's the filter setup I now run across five properties.
6 October 2026
Edinburgh's visitor levy landed in 2026. I host two flats in the Old Town and spent three weeks working out what I actually owed. Here's the registration, the maths, and the guest communication.
5 October 2026
Twelve towels turned orange in one wash — bleach, wrong concentration, wrong fabrics. Here's when bleach earns its place in an STR and what it destroys when misused.
4 October 2026
A guest with fragrance sensitivity made me audit every scented product in my Edinburgh flat. Here's the product swap, the dust-mite bedding protocol, and the listing copy that converts.
3 October 2026
Three boards in under a year — no system, one board, a guest review mentioning 'worn kitchen.' Here's the two-board setup and quarterly rotation that fixed it across five properties.
2 October 2026