Tips, insights, and best practices for rental inventory management.
I ran the maths across five properties after four years on a hotel laundry contract. In-house won twice. Hotel kept three. Here is how I actually decided.
27 April 2026
Eleven items, four suppliers, thirteen minutes to assemble a batch of twenty. I used to pay £9 a pack from Waitrose. Here is the line-by-line breakdown.
26 April 2026
I ran three linen models in parallel across five flats for a year. Hire, own-and-launder, or hybrid. Per-bed-per-turnover costs spread from £3.80 to £11.40. Here is the actual data.
25 April 2026
Three tiers of bathroom amenities, 264 turnovers, one surprise winner. The cost per guest gap was bigger than the review-score gap. Here is the actual data.
24 April 2026
A year of receipts across five flats, six AirCover claims, and £1,847 of missing stuff later, I finally know what to price in. Here is the maths.
23 April 2026
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