Making Money From A Second Home

Wendy Pascoe is a former BBC journalist, most recently attached to the World Service and Radio 4 Today programme. She left the BBC in 2002 and moved to Cornwall to set up her own holiday let business.

Introduction; 1. Why buy an investment property?; 2. Raising the money; 3. The right property; 4. Who needs an agent anyway?; 5. How to market your property; 6. The long-letting landlord; 7. Furnishing a holiday cottage; 8. Cleaning a holiday cottage; 9. Managing a holiday cottage; 10. Buying for student children; 11. Rules. regulations and legalities; 12. What to do if it all goes wrong; 13. Money out; 14. Money in; 15. Building your empire; Appendices