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Leaving home for tourists More Nelsonians are renting out their homes over the summer months to make some extra cash, as demand for more homely accommodation increases. Nelson has about six holiday home management companies and they say people will rent out their own homes over the New Year period for various reasons, but mainly to make some extra money. Auckland-based Bachcare has just announced that it has expanded its management of holiday homes and baches, to Nelson. Bachcare says while holiday homes and baches are the key part of their business nationwide, in Nelson people are more likely to rent out their own home and they can earn some big money for it. “It is a great way for owners to earn more money. Owners can typically expect to earn nearly $10,000 in rental income, just
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from renting it during the summer months,” says Bachcare Nelson manager, Victoria Goode. Nelson woman Vairi Hikuroa agrees and says for the past two years her young family have moved out of their small, three-bedroom home in Tahunanui for a few weeks over Christmas. She says they went camping while people were in their home and they made $180 per night. “That money enabled us to be able to go on holiday and have a good time. It was definitely worth it and a good way to take advantage of where we live.” Jarrod Buchanan, owner of Holiday Homes Nelson, says he started his business in 2008
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Dad gives Lowe-down on star Mako Anyone who watched Tasman Makos wing, James Lowe, playing in his younger days shouldn’t be surprised that he is the team’s leading try scorer - certainly not his father, Geoff, anyway. James, 23, scored his eighth try of the season in last Saturday’s ITM Cup semi-final against Canterbury to break Liam Squires’ record set last year. Now James is hoping to
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get the opportunity to extend that to nine or even 10 when the Makos play Taranaki in the final in New Plymouth on Saturday. But Geoff jokes that James is “slowing down” after regularly scoring 50 or 60 a season, firstly for Stoke
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and then Waimea Old Boys Red junior teams. “When he started playing rugby in the Stoke under-7 team I said I’d give him a dollar for every try he scored,” Geoff recalls. “I think he got 70 tries that year and so I just said I’d take him to McDonalds instead and he was happy.”
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