Questions and answers

It is a furnished summer property let by the month during the months it would otherwise sit empty. In Port Stanley that runs from roughly Labour Day to Victoria Day. You get the same house a summer visitor pays a weekly premium for, at a monthly rate, because the alternative for the owner is an empty building with the heat on.

Thirty nights on most homes. Some owners will take shorter shoulder-season stays in September, October and May — if that is what you need, ask and we will tell you which homes are flexible.

On most of our homes, yes — heat, hydro, water and Wi-Fi in one monthly number. Each listing states it plainly under the rates. Where utilities are metered separately it is because the home is large enough that winter heating is genuinely unpredictable, and that is disclosed up front rather than in a footnote.

Completely. Beds made, kitchen stocked with cookware and dishes, towels and linens supplied, Wi-Fi already connected. You should be able to arrive with a suitcase and cook dinner the same night.

At several of the homes, yes, usually with a pet fee and a conversation about size and breed. Every listing shows its pet policy. Port Stanley beaches also relax their dog rules outside the summer season, which is one of the quiet advantages of renting here in February.

Tell us as early as you can. Off-season stays are month-to-month by design, and extending is usually straightforward because the calendar behind you is empty. Shortening depends on the notice you can give and on the individual owner.

Fifteen minutes to St. Thomas and about thirty-five to London, both on paved road with no meaningful traffic. Highway 401 is roughly twenty minutes north. Winter road maintenance in Central Elgin is good — these are year-round routes for the people who live here.

Partly. Groceries, fuel, the post office, a couple of restaurants and the coffee shops stay open year-round because roughly two thousand people live here regardless of the season. What closes is the summer trade — the patios, the ice cream, the beach concessions. That is the trade you are making, and it is why the rates drop.

Send an enquiry from the listing you want. We come back with availability, the total for your dates, and what the owner needs — usually a signed agreement, a deposit and basic references. Nothing is charged until you have seen the numbers in writing.

Create an owner account, then build the listing yourself: drag your photographs in, write the description, set the monthly rate and the months you are willing to release. Nothing is public while you work on it. When it is ready you pick a package and submit it — we invoice you, check the listing over, and put it live for twelve months.

Bronze is $149, Silver $299 and Gold $499, each for a full twelve months from the day the listing publishes. That is the whole cost. We do not take a commission on what you rent the property for, and there is nothing to pay per enquiry or per booking.

Photographs and placement. Bronze carries 10 photographs and a standard listing. Silver carries 25 and always ranks above every Bronze listing, with a Featured badge. Gold carries 40, sits above everything else on the site, holds a permanent homepage slot and can include a video walkthrough. Every tier gets the same listing page, the same enquiry form and the same twelve months.

Yes, whenever you like, from your owner login. Rates, photographs, availability, description — it is your listing. Changes appear on the site within the hour.

Yes. Set a discounted monthly rate and your normal price appears struck through with the offer beneath it and the saving alongside, which is exactly how a renter scanning a list of properties notices you. You can add a short label — "Winter special", "Book by October 31" — and remove it at any time.

No. This site advertises the off season only. Your July and August stay exactly where they are, on whatever platform you already use. If anything, a well-kept winter tenant means your place opens in May in better shape than it closed in September.

Yes, and it is the fastest way to get live. Send us the link and we pull the photographs and the property details straight across, then help you rework the copy for an off-season audience rather than a summer one. You do not have to re-photograph anything.

They come to you. A renter fills in the form on your listing page and it goes straight to your inbox — you decide who you want in your property, you sign the agreement, and you hold the deposit. We are advertising, not a booking agent.

Overwhelmingly people working: travel nurses on hospital contracts, trades on long project bookings, families out of their house for a renovation or an insurance claim, and people between a sale and a closing. They are here because of a job or a deadline and they stay for months rather than weekends.

We email you before the listing expires so you can renew for another year. If you do nothing it simply comes off the site — nothing renews automatically and there is no subscription running in the background.