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Boat coding

2-3 partners wanted, Southerly 110, Swing Keel, 2000, Lymington, Hampshire

Many boat owners are wondering whether they can justify keeping and maintaining their beloved boat and yet selling it, even if they wanted to, isn’t that easy at the moment either.

Some of these pondering sailors are coming to yours2share to sell shares in their boat: [...]

Girl Meets Dress

Gill Dearnley of One Stop Italy sent me a link to Girl Meets Dress an interesting website where you can hire designer dresses for the night online.  I was aware of several websites where you can rent handbags, sunglasses and accessories, but I hadn’t seen one for dresses before.

Not quite the fractional rental that yours2share [...]

Options for sharing property or real estate

About a month ago there was a great article in the Daily Mail discussing fractional ownership and private syndicates. Two yours2share members who share more than one major asset were interviewed: Graham Price shares a property and boat in France; and Bill Hosie shares a boat and an aircraft.

This created a great deal of [...]

Reservation systems for private syndicates

Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Marriage bureau for assets

After explaining what yours2share is all about to someone today, they exclaimed, “a marriage bureau for assets”, and I thought this was rather delicious.  I’ve spent ridiculous amounts of time on the so-called elevator pitch and this seemed to reduce it to just four words.  OK, I then have to add a fair bit of [...]

Time share time machine

It’s not often that one of my favourite TV shows includes a good example of fractional ownership. (Even if it wrongly calls it timeshare).  It also explains why you should not to get carried away with on-line auctions, what sniping means and why you can’t rely upon snipers coming to your rescue!

The clip is from [...]

Networking Norfolk style

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been busily seeking out networking opportunities in Norfolk.  As a result, this week I’ve been to a Norfolk Women on Top lunch.  Next week I’m attending a “Women in Rural Enterprise” (WiRE) meeting and a Women, Research & Enterprise Forum (WREF) workshop at UAE, which I found [...]