Laura
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I’m not sure that most of you would see this as a problem...
When we started renovating our house, (I use the word house quite loosely – it’s an old hotel building from the 1800s that we are turning into a house,) I had the idea in mind of being a sort of “part time” B&B. We have 1 awful motel in town and a whole house that you can basically rent for as long as you want and someone comes in and cleans it for you. It mostly rents to scrapbooking groups for weekend getaways.
We always have a bunch of weddings and family reunions in town over the spring/summer/fall months and people don’t want to drive to the city for lodging. I was hoping to just tap into that and have occasional weekend guests or short term traveling through guests. However – North Dakota oil country is creeping closer and closer to our little town all the time and there is a wind farm going up just north of us about 1/2 hour...
Because we live in a small town, of course, word travels fast. The motel is booked constantly and the house has long-term renters, and now I am starting to have knocks on the door with people looking for rooms. Someone in town apparently thinks we are ready. Right now, I can honestly tell them, we aren’t ready. The guest rooms are bare studs right now, (as is the rest of the 2nd floor - I don't even have a bedroom myself right now,) and because we are doing most of the renovation ourselves they will be for quite some time yet! Anyway - these aren’t people that are looking for places to stay for the weekend. These are contractors and workers looking for long-term rooms and are willing to pay full hotel prices.
So now I’m afraid to go through with it. I don’t want to take on long-term guests. Heck - even my own family and friends start to stink when they have been here for a week! I guess my question is, do I scratch the whole idea of a B&B and just renovate it for us? Or is there a way to politely say thanks, but no thanks to long term guests?
When we started renovating our house, (I use the word house quite loosely – it’s an old hotel building from the 1800s that we are turning into a house,) I had the idea in mind of being a sort of “part time” B&B. We have 1 awful motel in town and a whole house that you can basically rent for as long as you want and someone comes in and cleans it for you. It mostly rents to scrapbooking groups for weekend getaways.
We always have a bunch of weddings and family reunions in town over the spring/summer/fall months and people don’t want to drive to the city for lodging. I was hoping to just tap into that and have occasional weekend guests or short term traveling through guests. However – North Dakota oil country is creeping closer and closer to our little town all the time and there is a wind farm going up just north of us about 1/2 hour...
Because we live in a small town, of course, word travels fast. The motel is booked constantly and the house has long-term renters, and now I am starting to have knocks on the door with people looking for rooms. Someone in town apparently thinks we are ready. Right now, I can honestly tell them, we aren’t ready. The guest rooms are bare studs right now, (as is the rest of the 2nd floor - I don't even have a bedroom myself right now,) and because we are doing most of the renovation ourselves they will be for quite some time yet! Anyway - these aren’t people that are looking for places to stay for the weekend. These are contractors and workers looking for long-term rooms and are willing to pay full hotel prices.
So now I’m afraid to go through with it. I don’t want to take on long-term guests. Heck - even my own family and friends start to stink when they have been here for a week! I guess my question is, do I scratch the whole idea of a B&B and just renovate it for us? Or is there a way to politely say thanks, but no thanks to long term guests?