Bed and Breakfast for Sale is the Internet's largest source of bed and breakfasts and country inns for sale. It is both user friendly and a sophisticated site for assisting innkeepers and real estate professionals to market properties that are for sale. Last month, 18,510 prospective buyers visited the site.

What we're hearing...

bedandbreakfastforsale.com offers prospective innkeepers the ability to search for inns geographically by region, state and even by individual destination. The search can be further narrowed by the number of guest rooms or widened to browse all of the inns for sale in the system.

The sales information is organized and presented professionally; the graphics of the inns are styled to enhance the users understanding of the offering. Our discussions with innkeepers and real estate professionals who have successfully sold small lodging properties, indicate that the transfer process is often accelerated when the prospects are presented early-on with occupancy, average daily rate and other basic operating statistics. We have included this type of data in the property listing format. We believe you will see the difference!

bedandbreakfastforsale.com also provides significant "on-site" assistance to prospective innkeepers. Information to enhance their understanding of innkeeping and of the inn opportunities listed for sale on the site. This includes:

• Direct link to an inn's web site to view further detail
• Research links to national, state and local web sites with data useful in the research and due diligence process
• Instant E-mail for immediate prospect inquiries.
• Display of an inn's floor plan
• Listed inns ratings, testimonials, reviews and recommendations
• Customized inn purchase mortgage calculator with lots of "Help" screens
• Articles, feature stories and studies
• How-to tools on topics like "Valuing An Inn" and "Writing a Business Plan"

David Caples and Helen Cook, principals of Bed and Breakfast for Sale, are also founding partners in our sister company... Lodging Resources Workshops (LRW). Through Lodging Resources Workshops, David and Helen have the privilege of teaching more aspiring innkeepers than any other trainers in the field. Their consulting services and published articles on a variety of inn keeping topics are nationally respected. Their expertise in devising successful exit plans for innkeepers leaving the profession was used in developing the marketing program for Bed and Breakfast For Sale. A program that will reach prospective inn purchasers and keep them coming back to the site for more information.

Bed and Breakfast for Sale has implemented a national marketing program to continually inform prospective inn buyers about the content available on the web site. This includes articles advertising in B&B trade journals, consumer small business publications and travel related web sites. Marketing at industry meetings and conferences on a state, regional and national basis. Actively developing strategic alliances that will drive aspiring innkeeper inquiries to the site.

The bedandbreakfastforsale.com web site is introduced to aspiring innkeepers in all Lodging Resources Workshops seminars, "boot camps", workshops and consulting environments. It is the source of 1st resort when searching for inn opportunities by aspiring innkeepers or active innkeepers who want to "move-up".

Newly listed properties are advantaged by immediate notification to our aspiring innkeeper E-mail list, concurrent with their ad appearing on the web site.