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Successful horse sharing

yours2share now has well over 300 horse share ads, from all over the UK, from Devon to Ayrshire and Cardiff to Surrey (lots and lots there!) I’ve recently spoken to several people who have successfully found sharers through yours2share.

I’ve also spoken to a few who have found a sharer, it’s worked well for a [...]

Monday to friday lettings

The last yours2share newsletter had a piece about Monday to Friday rentals and this generated the highest number of click-throughs from the newsletter by a very big margin.  So I thought I’d have an overhaul of the weekday lettings guidance pages.

The information is split into three sections: for landlords, for tenants and for companies with [...]

Fractional e-bay

I was busy chatting someone on the phone yesterday and after my extended elevator pitch (ground to 100th floor return) the person I was explaining yours2share to exclaimed “You mean you’re a fractional e-bay”.

I thought it summed up yours2share rather well, even if there was a little flattery involved.

But I can see his point, yours2share [...]

10 top tips for land share

If you are thinking about allowing someone who will grow vegetables in your garden, here are ten top tips to ensure a successful sharing arrangement.

Make sure there is a water source, if there isn’t one, you will need to provide one.
Work out where the composter will be located and what is to be done with [...]

Sharing private swimming pools

yours2share’s latest sharing category is private leisure facilities which includes swimming pools, tennis courts and any other expensive private leisure facility that is only used occasionally, such as saunas and private gyms.

This has always been a potential category. I personally love swimming, but hate pools filled with screaming children or indeed with filled [...]

Second homes: not always for holidays

Second home are usually synonymous with holiday homes, but people increasingly need residential bases in more than one location for other reasons:

working on contract
working from home but visiting the office for a couple of days a week
visiting children who live with the other parent
and visiting older relatives.

yours2share was created to help private individuals get together [...]

How to rent out all that stuff you’ve accumulated

There are a few new rental websites that I’ve been watching to see how they progress. They all enable people (private individuals and companies) to advertise items to hire. This is close to my heart: anything that encourages people to share all the stuff we accumulate sounds good to me.

The websites originate in [...]

Google’s calendar – helping you to manage your fractional ownership

I’ve been asked several times if yours2share recommends any on-line calendars which people can use to book times for a property, boat, aircraft or anything else they are sharing, either through fractional ownership or fractional rental.

This allows everyone to see at a glance who is using the property etc at any time. If [...]

Fractional rent: template contracts available

We have just released a new fractional rental template contract which enables to help people set up all kinds of fractional rental arrangements where the property is a non permanent residence or used as a holiday home by the landlord and the tenant. (It is document PR545 at the bottom of the page.) Alongside [...]