Post by High Priestess on Aug 20, 2017 3:27:18 GMT
Aristocrats are renting out their castles on Airbnb...."to keep the roof on"...
www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-aristocrats-renting-out-their-castles-on-airbnb-4
Take, for example, Carnell, a vast house and 2000-acre estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, which has been in the Findlay family for 700 years. The current incumbent, Micky Findlay is listing his home on Airbnb for 20 guests for around $3,000 per night. His girlfriend Adrienne manages the listing.
Guests to Carnell – have included Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Another guest, Larry Hagman, was a "bloody hoot" according to Findlay.
He says his grandparents would have been horrified at the prospect of renting the house out for money: “Paying guests? Perish the thought,” but as he points out, they “were so bloody rich” the question didn’t really arise.
“The thing is it costs about 120 grand (£120,00 or $154,000) a year just to run the house,” he said. “It’s a huge problem for all these big houses. I was complaining about the cost of maintaining the roof to the Duke Of Marlborough the other day and he said, ‘I’ve got six acres of roof to look after.’”
www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-aristocrats-renting-out-their-castles-on-airbnb-4
Take, for example, Carnell, a vast house and 2000-acre estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, which has been in the Findlay family for 700 years. The current incumbent, Micky Findlay is listing his home on Airbnb for 20 guests for around $3,000 per night. His girlfriend Adrienne manages the listing.
Guests to Carnell – have included Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Another guest, Larry Hagman, was a "bloody hoot" according to Findlay.
He says his grandparents would have been horrified at the prospect of renting the house out for money: “Paying guests? Perish the thought,” but as he points out, they “were so bloody rich” the question didn’t really arise.
“The thing is it costs about 120 grand (£120,00 or $154,000) a year just to run the house,” he said. “It’s a huge problem for all these big houses. I was complaining about the cost of maintaining the roof to the Duke Of Marlborough the other day and he said, ‘I’ve got six acres of roof to look after.’”