We like to think of ourselves as pretty laid back on the whole, but we are living in strange times.
By the way, your clicking of the “Book Now” button is evidence of your acceptance of these terms.
Cancellations
Let’s tackle this one first. What is a set of House Rules without cancellation rules?
We completely understand the need to cancel your reservation from time to time when travel plans fall through. Who knew that the blushing bride at the wedding you were invited to would skip off to Panama City with one of the groomsmen?
In 80 percent of the cases of cancellations, the root cause was something you did, rather than something we did. Generally speaking if you need to cancel you need to tell us 48 hours in advance. That’s two days. We will determine how much refund we will be willing to give you, if any.
House Rules: Unauthorized Guests
This is a good one. Your profile photo says you look one way, and when you show up, you’re a completely different person. How did this happen? Well sometimes there are appearance changes. But it only takes about 10 minutes to update your profile photo. We’re going to go out on a limb and say that if your photo doesn’t look like you, you’re up to some mischief. Therefore we reserve the right to refuse to lodge you.
Also, if your reservation says two people, and you show up as 6, we love you. And, we might be able to accommodate you in some combination of our other guest rooms. But to us this sounds like a party, and we will refuse to lodge you.
We get to make the House Rules
Pets
Our view of pets is nuanced. “Nice” pets, that you report ahead of time, are fine. There will be a damage deposit. We will charge you a pet fee and expect you to pay for damage caused by your pet. This includes peeing on something, or gnawing on something. Our House Rules are needed for us to recover our cost of fixing it.
“Jerk” pets, such as vicious dogs are not fine. Fact: The animal in Georgia that has caused the most fatalities in the last few years is the pit bull.
We reserve the right to make the determination on all of this.
If you try to sneak one in, we will know, and attempting to do so will potentially cause your stay to be cancelled.
Noise and Parties
We’re not opposed to a small, orderly party. Therefore, we have this as part of our service sometimes. But if you think you’re going to rent a room, and invite a hundred people over for some beers, you have another think coming.
We like our neighbors (except for one) and want to avoid ticking them off. We reserve the right to call the cops and have them ask you to leave.
As it applies to noise: The Morgan County Noise Ordinance applies. Amplified sound that bugs the neighbors is illegal. We’re going to ask you to stop it. If you don’t we’ll turn it over to the Sheriff.
Quiet hours in Morgan County start at 10 PM, which is pretty reasonable.
Long Term Rentals
The local county zoning has rules against rentals longer than 30 days, Therefore these are not allowed.
If your travel needs include a longer, more extended stay, please call us. We can make a referral to somewhere that can accommodate your needs better.
We’re aware of the Georgia Real Estate Law requirements for tenants and landlords. We are not inclined to fall into this category.
Bad Habits
Smoking, drunkenness, fighting, and illegal drug use of any type are not allowed. Is smoking in the same emotional category as fighting? Well, not really, but we do reserve the right to tell you to stop doing something we think is unsafe or may cause issues for future guests.
If you want to have a glass of wine, consume adultlike quantities of chocolate, and binge watch Sweet Magnolias, these are fairly harmless.
We maintain a pretty significant library of Chick Flick DVD’s for this purpose.
Room Access
We have to talk about this for a minute.
From time to time, we may feel the need to enter your room to do necessary maintenance. For example, we may need to inspect something, or stop a flood.
We may also feel the need to enter your room to stop some other dangerous, unsanitary, or stinky condition that we don’t like. We want to not distrupt the stay of some other guests, and need to be able to prevent damage.
So, we reserve the right to enter your room. We’ll try to call you first, but ultimately we’re going to do what we have to do.
Trash
We talked in the “About Your Stay” page about trash.
Is that “Trash talk?” Yes, I suppose that is.
You’re going to be charged a cleaning fee. In most cases, that’s sufficient to cover the cost of cleaning. But, if we find that you accumulated some amount of trash that has become unsanitary, you will be assessed a damage fee over and above that.
Do you want to see a horror story on this? Here’s a link. It’s not fair to us or the next guest to tolerate this sort of thing.
Guests are not allowed to receive mail at our place. There are a couple of important reasons for this that we don’t need to go into for the moment. Any mail received in our mailbox intended for a guest will be given to one of the dogs. What then happens to it is up to them.
This goes double for packages. We are aware of the Money Mule scam.
We can refer you to a place in town that will receive mail for you, for a fee.
Payment
You will pay us in advance of your stay, in US Dollars, Paypal, or other suitable needs. “Ellie’s Credit Card Charge Page” may be used for this purpose.
If you don’t pay us you’re not going to be allowed to stay. We dislike barter, and no one that has ever promised to do work for us in exchange for rent has done the work. If you do want to do work for us, we will pay you dollars, and you can pay us rent.
Constructive Eviction
We reserve the right to do this. This is where we shut off the lights and water to your unit, change the access code, or take other steps to encourage compliance with the above rules.
We hate to be like this, and we love everybody. But we’re not going to let scammers or squatters stay in our nice B&B that we’ve worked so hard to get the permitting for.
Disputes
We’re generally pretty agreeable people. But in the unlikely event that you disagree with any of the above, we reserve the right to have our way, and your clicking of the “book now” is evidence of agreement to these house rules.
