Our process, in plain language
How this actually works — and what "transparent" means in practice
A flat fee. Cleaning billed at cost. No contract. You keep your own login the whole time. Here's the process end to end, for a Dordogne rental managed from Bergerac — and why it's built this way.
Why owners hesitate
Handing your property to a manager usually means accepting a few things you can't check. One monthly number covering cleaning, admin and something labelled "service," with no way to separate the parts — so no way to tell whether any of them is priced fairly. Long quiet stretches between check-ins, where the only news about your own house arrives as a review you read like a stranger. A contract that runs to the end of the season whether it's working or not. And in some setups, handing over the platform login, so looking at your own calendar means asking someone else to show it to you.
From Amsterdam or London, none of that is easy to push back on. You're an hour or two out of sync, the paperwork is in French, and you can't drive to Eymet on a Tuesday to see for yourself. That's not a problem I've solved. It's the reason the process below is shaped the way it is.
The process, step by step
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Free rate check
It starts with a free rate check. You send me the listing; I look at what you're charging against what comparable places around Bergerac and Sarlat are getting, and at how the property is presented — photo order, what the copy leads with, what it buries. You get that assessment whether or not you go further.
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Agree scope by email
If you want to continue, we agree the scope by email: what I take on, what stays with you, what happens with your existing cleaner if you have one. There's no contract to sign. The email is the record, and it's short enough to read in one go.
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The handover
Then the handover, which is smaller than people expect. Guest messaging, pricing and the calendar move to me. Your platform login does not. You keep it throughout, along with full sight of the inbox, the rates and the bookings, so nothing about your property is ever something you have to request.
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Day to day
Guest messages get answered within the hour in Dutch, English or French. Rates move with the season and local demand — a Bergerac wine weekend and a wet fortnight in November are not the same pricing problem. Cleaning is scheduled around bookings as they come in. Reviews get read and answered, and anything a guest flags is dealt with before the next arrival rather than after the third mention.
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The first month, judged fairly
After one full month, we compare occupancy with the same month the year before. If it hasn't improved, that month's €99 is waived. No argument, no admin.
What transparency actually means here
The fee, and the line that hides markups
The fee is €99 a month plus 12% of booking revenue. Both numbers are on the pricing page and neither of them moves. The reason to state it that way is that the common alternative — one bundled rate, or a percentage that quietly absorbs several services — makes it impossible to work out what any single part of the job costs you.
Cleaning is the clearest example. It's subcontracted to local cleaners and billed to you at exactly what they charge, with no markup. That line is where margin most often gets padded without anyone noticing, because an owner who isn't in the country has no easy way to know the going rate for a changeover in Issigeac.
No small print
No long-term contract. No login handover.
Month to month, cancellable with a month's notice by email, no penalty. You keep your own login the whole time.
None of that is a track record. CoHost Dordogne is new, and I'd rather point you at a fee structure you can verify in thirty seconds than at outcomes I can't yet show you.
Why local matters to the process
I live near Bergerac, not in an office in another country with a rota of people who've never seen the Dordogne. If a guest reports something that sounds worse than it reads, I can drive over and look at it, which is a different thing from relaying it to you and waiting.
It also means I know what local cleaners charge and can coordinate them directly, rather than through an agency layer that takes its cut for making the same phone call. I can walk you through what meublé de tourisme registration involves and where it gets done — see the full registration guide for the details — though for anything that's genuinely tax or legal advice, I'll send you to someone qualified rather than guess. And guests get replies in Dutch, English and French — the three languages this corner of France actually runs on — rather than one default language and an apology. That applies across Bergerac, Sarlat, Eymet, Lalinde, Issigeac, Périgueux and the villages between.
Send me your listing
This is a new business, so there's no client list to show you and I'm not going to invent one. What there is: a flat €99 a month plus 12%, cleaning billed at cost, no contract, your own login kept in your hands, and a first month that costs nothing if occupancy hasn't moved. Plus one person, twenty minutes from Bergerac, who answers.
If you want to know whether your property is priced and presented properly, send me the listing and I'll tell you what I see. That part is free, and it doesn't commit you to anything.
Get your free rate check
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