South East Sleepers

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SHORT & MID-TERM LETTING MANAGEMENT

Your property,
run properly.

We run furnished properties as short and mid-term stays across every major booking platform.
You keep the property and the income. We handle everything.

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Row of period seafront cottages in evening sunlight
Why owners switch

Sound familiar?

Two months empty between tenants.

The broken boiler on a Sunday night.

The tenant who suddenly stops paying.

Rent that has not increased in years while everything else has.

If any of that sounds familiar, you are not doing it wrong. The long-let model itself has got harder.

The rules have changed. A tenancy is not the safe option it used to be.

Section 21 is gone. Notice periods are longer, and removing a tenant who stops paying is slower and more expensive than ever before.

Short stays work differently. Guests check out and the property is yours again. You can even block out dates for yourself whenever you like, and your rate isn’t fixed to whatever you agreed a year ago.

THE COMPARISON THAT MATTERS

What you actually keep

Most owners compare short-let income against their full rental price. That is the wrong comparison — after fees and agency costs, your margin rapidly lowers, and money was never the only thing a tenancy was costing you.

A long tenancy

Two-bed flat, let at £1,400 pcm

Managed short & mid-term

The same property, run by us
What you keep
each month
£1,080
after fees, voids and costs
£1,281
+£201 a month
The cautious version
+£2,412
Modelled at 58% occupancy — deliberately below what this coast typically achieves.
The same property, one year on

This is a plain two-bed with nothing remarkable about it, run on numbers we have deliberately held down. Most properties we look at come out ahead of this, not behind it. The longer it runs this way, the further apart the two columns get.

£4,900 a year
What the same calculation produces for a three-bed with a sea view, same cautious assumptions. Still cautious — and still only an illustration until we have run yours.
If they stop paying
Months of arrears while you keep paying the mortgage, then a court process to get them out.
Guests pay in full before they arrive. Arrears are not a thing that can happen.
Damage
Deposit is capped at five weeks' rent. Disputes go to a scheme and take months.
Platform host protection plus proper short-let insurance, and we handle the claim for you.
Condition
Nobody sees inside for twelve to eighteen months. The first you hear of a problem is when it is expensive.
Cleaned and checked two or three times a week. Every room photographed after every stay, and you get the photos.
Small repairs
Reported late, chased by you, priced by whoever answers the phone.
Spotted in week one and handled by us, at trade prices, before they become big ones.
Getting it back
Notice periods, and a court if it goes wrong. Months either way.
Block the calendar. It is yours again after the last guest leaves.
Using it yourself
Not without ending the tenancy.
Any dates you like, any time, at no cost. A week in August is yours if you want it.
Your monthly involvement
Chasing rent, arranging repairs, and opening post you would rather not.
One statement showing where every pound came from. Nothing else.
Figures are an illustration on deliberately cautious assumptions — 58% occupancy, below the local average — and are after our fee, cleaning, bills and platform charges. Your property will have its own numbers, and we will run them honestly, including telling you if it does not work.

Beat the net, not the rent. If yours does not clearly show a return, we will tell you.

Made bed with a warm bedside lamp and pendant lights in a prepared guest bedroom
WHAT WE DO

One property, every channel

Made bed with a warm bedside lamp and pendant lights in a prepared guest bedroom

Your property goes live on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and multiple mid-term platforms at the same time, on one synchronised calendar. More channels means more nights booked — and it means the quiet months are covered by longer stays rather than left empty.

  • Listing built and photographed properly, then priced daily against real local demand.
  • Every guest handled from enquiry to checkout. You will not hear from us at 2am, and you won't hear from them either.
  • A full reset between stays: linen changed, restocked, every room photographed against a written standard.
  • Maintenance found early, because somebody is in the property every few days.
  • A monthly statement showing where every pound came from — and the listing stays in your name.
OUR STANDARD

We care for it like
a small hotel

A well-run short-let is a hotel with one room. That is how we treat it, and it is why the returns work — guests who arrive to a properly prepared property leave five-star reviews, and reviews are what let us raise your rate.

We choose who stays

Not every booking is worth taking. We check each guest, to keep the wrong guests out.

The same reset, every time

Written checklist, linen changed, everything restocked, every room photographed. You see the photos too.

Problems found in week one

Not month eighteen. Somebody is in the property, which is worth more than an annual inspection.

Guests get a real welcome

Fast replies, proper instructions, someone who answers.
A better stay means better reviews, and better reviews mean more bookings.

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps, and
only one of them is yours

Step one

Free earnings estimate

We run your property’s real numbers, cautiously, and show you what it would net you.

Step two

We set it up

Photography, listings across every platform, pricing, cleaner, compliance checks. One to two weeks.

Step three

We run it

Guests, cleaning, maintenance, pricing, reviews. From here you do nothing.

Step four

You get paid

Monthly, with a statement that shows the detail rather than a single number.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Three kinds of owner

Landlords who have had enough of tenancies

Low yields, void months, tenant problems, and now tighter rules. Selling is not the only alternative.

Owners of a second or inherited property

It should be earning, without turning you into a full-time host or a part-time cleaner.

Hosts already doing it, and drowning

Listed already, but buried in messages and turnovers — or leaving money on the table on price. We take it over.

WHO will care for your property

The person who will
actually be looking after it

I’m Jake. I started South East Sleepers because I kept meeting landlords along this coast who owned something genuinely valuable and had quietly started to resent it. Void months. The boiler call on a Sunday. A property that was supposed to buy freedom and instead ate weekends.

I’ve worked alongside many trades, so repairs get done properly, for the right price. I am based in Hastings, so if something needs doing, I will be nearby to manage it, instantly — not on a phone line in another county.

You will deal with me. Not an account manager, not a ticket system. Me.
Your property’s performance is my reputation in a place where owners talk to each other, and that is a stronger guarantee than anything I could put in writing.

Jake Vogels

Founder, South East Sleepers

HOW WE ARE SET UP

Built properly, with purpose

  • A limited company, registered in England and Wales, with the company number in the footer.
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, because we handle guest and owner data.
  • Professionally insured, with a written management agreement you keep a copy of.
  • Your money never passes through us. The listing and the payouts stay in your name, and you see every booking as it happens.

This is the difference between a professional operator and a busy agency.

THE ARRANGEMENT

How we work together

Commercially

  • A percentage of what the property takes, agreed upfront. Nothing hidden.
  • No setup fee and no monthly charge. If it does not earn, we do not earn.
  • A short written agreement with no fixed term. Thirty days' notice to cancel.
  • The listing and the income stay in your name. You see every booking as it happens.

Why us

  • Local. We can meet you and walk the property, not manage it from three counties away.
  • Limited company, registered for data protection, insured, and a written management agreement.
  • A trade background — so you will not be overcharged when something needs fixing.
  • Conservative numbers. When a property does not work for this, we say so.

Six months from now, this is a property you do not think about. The bookings come in. The cleaner turns up. The statement lands at the start of the month.

You block out a week in August because you fancy going down yourself, and nobody has to be given two months’ notice.

That is the whole offer. Nothing dramatic — a property that behaves like an asset instead of a job.

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