Property ProtectionHow Guest Verification Protects Your Property
The single most effective protection for a short-term rental happens before anyone gets a key. Here is how professional guest vetting works.
Owners deserve to know exactly what "we look after your property" means in practice. This is the protection process every Prima Stays home goes through — step by step, stay by stay.
Before the first guest, we audit the property: safety certification (gas, electrical, fire), insurance suitability, an inventory with photographic condition records, and a review of lease, lender and planning permissions. Gaps are fixed before going live, not after.
Every booking passes identity verification and risk screening. House rules and occupancy limits are agreed in writing; bookings that do not add up are questioned or declined.
A pre-authorised security deposit sits behind each reservation — released automatically when, as almost always, nothing needs it.
Housekeeping doubles as inspection. Condition is photographed, faults logged, and maintenance triggered the same day. The property is examined dozens of times a year by people trained to notice.
Deposits for the small, platform programmes for the medium, specialist insurance for the serious — the structure explained in Damage Protection Explained.
When something does happen: document, remedy, resolve, report. Owners hear about problems in the past tense, with the solution attached.
A monthly owner statement covers bookings, income, expenses and property notes — full visibility without any of the workload.
Protection is not a promise at Prima Stays; it is a process. If you would like it working for your home, we would be delighted to begin with a free assessment.
Prima Stays provides boutique short-let management across Bath, Bristol and the Cotswolds — full service for a straightforward 15% fee.
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