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Install a card meter in your home, either on the complete consumer unit or on part of it ( for example the air conditioning ) How it works: You give your tenant/ guest a supply of cards for the duration of their holiday. The cards can be valued at 10€ or 20€ . If they run out of electricity there is a small reserve to allow for emergencies. However they will have to buy another card from your keyholder or yourself. As you factor in the cost of electricity into your rental anyway you are merely giving them the opportunity to be cautious with their consumption. If the air con is left on all day, or the doors are left open whilst it is on you will soon get large bills. |
One of the benefits of the card meter of course is that there is no money left in the apartment tempting theft. You can also set the meter so that the price per unit charged is slightly higher than your cost. This will enable you to pay the small admin charge your keyholder will make for carrying the cards for you. Another method of administration could be to let them have more cards than they would need but you only return the deposit taken once the cards given back. If you state that the holiday includes say 20€ per week, give them say 80€ worth of cards if they return only say 20€ then in a two week stay you will only refund the deposit less the excess which they have used. Of course as you will be paying your keyholder to clean the apartment on their departure you may wish to use the money paid to a keyholder for extra cards as part or even whole payment towards their costs. How you administer its use is entirely up to you! The cost including installation by a fully certified electrician is 150€ plus i.v.a plus an annual service contract of 50€ plus i.v.a This includes 500 x10€ or 20€ cards (once the card has been used it cannot be used again, it must be discarded). We would strongly recommend that the meter be placed on the whole of the consumer unit for you to benefit from the raised tariff. If the meter is only on the air con there is no control over costs if someone leaves on the oven, iron or fan heater (if they are cold they may well buy one !) Here is the bonus. Once your client has gone, you or your keyholder can reset the meter to zero each time. Ever been told by the car rental company leave the car without fuel. You try frantically to gauge how much to leave in for the return journey to the airport. You never can risk running out on the way back. Same with the meter. Once you have used your card there is no refund, so you benefit from any unused credit! You will soon make your initial costs back! Interested? Contact us here |