Stop paying in spring for what you forgot in autumn.
150+ checks in the order the work actually happens, so the season's money stays yours. A free 14 page PDF for closing your villa at the end of the season and opening it for the next one.
- Closing, room by room, so nothing is discovered in spring
- Opening by the calendar, so your tradesmen are booked before everyone else calls them
- A winter works planner, so everything that needs repairing, replacing or upgrading gets written down with a priority and a cost
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Take a look inside
Three of fourteen pages
p. 08 · Exterior
- Furniture and shade
- Storm prep
- Before you lock the door
p. 10 · Opening
- Two months before opening
- 2–3 weeks before opening · interior
p. 14 · Winter works planner
Priority key
1Broken, unsafe, or stops a booking.
2Working now, but it will not last the season.
3An improvement, not a repair.
Closing is when you find outwhat's wrong.
Winter is when youfix it cheaply.
Opening is when youcheck it all works.
Learned the hard way
We filled a pool for the season, then found one small piece of the main drain grate was missing. Tour operators treat that as a safety hazard, and they are right to. We had to drain the whole pool and fill it again. Check the grate while the pool is empty and you can reach it.
I run holiday villas in Kefalonia, Greece. This is what I actually do every October and April. Every line in this checklist earned its place, and some of them earned it the expensive way.
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