A free earnings check from Frankie in Beccles: what your home could earn, and what you'd keep after Airbnb's fee and mine. Already letting, or never let it before, I organise everything so you don't have to.
Founding owners: 15% for 2027, first 5 homes
Frankie lives in Beccles. Cleaning and changeovers are family-run, the fee is on this page, and your check compares your home with similar holiday lets nearby.
Beccles, Bungay, Worlingham, Geldeston, Ditchingham, Oulton Broad, Kessingland and the villages between.
If you run it yourself, some of these will sound familiar.
None of that needs to be yours. Whether you live round the corner or further afield, I'm your local eyes and ears: the cleaning is family-run, and I deal with whatever comes up. You see the bookings and the money.
Worked out for your home, from similar homes nearby. Yours to keep, whether or not we work together.
Busy and quiet months, month by month
An estimate from the Sykes owner calculator (about £18,050 for a Beccles 2-bed) and the UK 2-bed average of £21,000. At the 18% standard rate you'd keep about £13,900. Cleaning is paid separately by guests. Yours uses your size and area, then I check your address by hand.
Straightforward, honest advice, and no hard sell.
Then how it's run now and how to reach you. About a minute.
What your home could earn in a quiet year and a busy one, and what you'd keep after Airbnb's fee and mine.
On your screen straight awayIf you'd like, we walk round the house together. I go through a fire and gas safety checklist for holiday lets (a prompt list, not a formal assessment), and leave the checklist and the cautious figure with you on paper. If it isn't for you, keep both.
Photos, the listing, prices, the paperwork dates set up and the cleaning arranged. Then the first booking.
Here's everything I take on. Your part is reading one page a month and watching the money land.
A second home, a house you've inherited, or the place you're moving out of: you don't need to know where to start. I'll take you from an empty house to the first booking.
Want it for yourself some weeks? Keep those dates, and let it the weeks you're not there.
A percentage of what the booking site pays out, after its own fee. Nothing when your home is empty.
for the whole of 2027. The cleaning is family-run, so I'm starting with five homes to get every changeover right, and the first owners get a better rate in return for honest feedback.
from 2028 for founding homes, and for homes that join after the first five.
Both rates: charged on the booking site's payout, after its fee, with the cleaning fee taken out. No VAT added while Staithe is under the VAT threshold. If that changes, I'll give you notice first.
How that compares. Some managers round here charge 15% plus VAT, which is 18% for most owners. Here, founding owners pay 15% with nothing added, and the standard 18% costs the same as their 15% plus VAT.
| On a £1,000 payout | Fee | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| Staithe founding, 15% | £150 | £850 |
| Staithe standard, 18% | £180 | £820 |
| 15% plus VAT elsewhere | £180 | £820 |
Most managers list your home, move the prices and look after guests. Here's where Staithe is different.
| What you get | Often elsewhere | Staithe |
|---|---|---|
| Lives in Beccles | Often miles away | Yes |
| Who cleans your home | Usually a contractor | A local family team I work with |
| Photos before and after every clean | Not usually | Yes, before and after |
| Safety dates tracked, engineers booked | Often left to you | Yes, arranged with you |
| Fee shown on the website | Often not | 15% founding, 18% standard |
| Who you deal with | Often a different person each time | Frankie, every time |
Big agencies run hundreds of homes from somewhere else. When a guest can't find the key at nine at night, or the boiler goes on a Saturday, you want someone nearby who picks up.
I'm setting up Staithe to look after a handful of homes properly, and to look after each one as if it were my own. Cleaning and changeovers are family-run, the same faces wherever possible, and they spot the dripping tap or the tired duvet before a guest does. You deal with me directly, and I pick up.
Covering Beccles, Bungay, Worlingham, Geldeston, Ditchingham, Oulton Broad, Kessingland and the villages between.
18% of what the booking site pays out for each stay, after its own fee and with the cleaning fee taken out. Founding owners pay 15% for the whole of 2027. If Airbnb pays out £1,000, my fee is £180, or £150 at the founding rate. No setup fee, no VAT added while Staithe is under the threshold, and nothing when your home is empty.
Some charge 15% plus VAT, which most owners pay as 18%. Mine has no VAT on top, so the standard rate costs you the same, and founding owners pay less. The difference is what's included: a family cleaning team you'll know by name, photos before and after every clean, and the safety dates kept for you.
You stay the legal owner. I track the dates, book the engineers and keep copies of every certificate, and qualified people sign them: a Gas Safe engineer for the gas check, a competent assessor for the fire risk assessment.
Holiday let insurance; a gas safety record if you have gas; a written fire risk assessment; linked smoke alarms with a heat alarm in the kitchen; a carbon monoxide alarm by any gas or wood burner; and an EPC if you let for four months or more a year. If something's missing, the walk round shows it, and I'll book someone to sort it.
Usually, yes. Check your contract's notice period first. We'll plan the move around bookings already taken, so no guest is let down.
Some months here are quiet, and I won't pretend otherwise. Your earnings check shows the quiet months alongside the busy ones. In winter we go after short breaks, Christmas and New Year, dog-friendly stays and walking weekends.
Yes. Block any dates you want, and see every booking and payment whenever you like.
No lock-in. You can leave with 60 days notice, so guests who've already booked aren't let down.
The arrival photos from the clean show the damage with the date on it, so I can gather the evidence quickly and help you claim through the booking site or the guest's deposit. You'll also need your own holiday let insurance, which we'll check together at the start.
A postcode and the number of bedrooms is how it starts. Your figures appear straight away, then you talk to Frankie, not a sales team. Founding places are limited to five homes.
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