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I would think very carefully about yourselves before taking the plunge. From a reverse perspective, I'm very glad to have just got out of the Gite business after many years, in my time the market has gone from demand massively outweighing supply, to quite the reverse. It gets worse each year and as more people start to struggle and discount it will only get worse.
Furthermore, in my experience the key to running gites(with the exception of very large houses) is ultimately repeat business and the key to repeat business is a very simple concept. People tend to rebook for people not places. In other words it will be down to you to make people come back, your enthusiasm will make this happen or not.
However, in many years observing people come and go in this business, I have never seen anyone last more than 10 years with a gite complex, most 'burn out' after about 5. They simply get fed up with constantly sharing their lives with other people, being asked the same questions over and over and recanting the same anecdotes, really it happens.
I still remember nearly 20 years ago, my last week in the office, while doing the morning routine, post and messages etc., winding colleagues up along the lines of: 'next month my morning routine will be cleaning the pool'. It's amazing how quickly cleaning the pool becomes a drag, The grass is always greener.
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