FAQs

Operating a holiday home is a painful experience (!) and engaging a highly competent management company will pay for itself in increased utilisation and revenue

Happy Holiday Homes is a full service holiday home management company handling marketing, finances, guest service (pre/during/post stay), cleaning and maintenance issues on your behalf.

Happy Holiday Homes can help you with this process. If your place was previously registered as a holiday home, it’s a simple form. If it’s a new home or previously used as residential, it’s a more involved process involving a development application to change the land use from residential to holiday home – some homes will require a BAL (bush fire) assessment to be done as part of this process. Once this is approved then a further registration form is required to be submitted. More information can be found here - https://www.busselton.wa.gov.au/plan-and-build/holiday-homes.aspx

The City and Busselton brought in some 'new' rules in July 2022 - most of which weren't new at all... The highlights are no guests of guests after 10pm (Happy Holiday Homes don't allow this anyway), no pets to be left unattended (or this) and some internal and external signage (which we can arrange free of charge to you).

The next phase is to insist on a response time of 12 hours to any issue - a bit pointless in our opinion, as guests and neighbours would understandably want issues solving a lot faster than that!!!

Very good. Post the Covid lock-downs occupancy levels and revenues shot-up and that doesn’t seem to have changed since lock-downs were removed. A lot of inter-state and international visitors are staying in the southwest currently, as well as the regular Perth visitors. This is good because inter-state and international visitors stay longer and are not so concentrated on weekends / school and public holidays.

We try to keep to a minimum of stay of three nights (longer in peak periods), but will reduce to two nights later, close to arrival date if unsold. This is for two reasons. Firstly, if you sell a weekend for two nights in advance, you've compromised your chance of selling for a longer duration later and making more money. Secondly, the younger party crowd prefer shorter durations, so not offering two nights will mitigate some potential problems.

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