Simon Tolson's guest appearances

Simon Tolson

Holiday Let Success | Vacation Rental | Marketing | Elaine Watt | Property Investing | Short Stay | Holiday Rental | Increase Bookings | Reduce Costs | Save Time | Property Management

Humans of Hospitality

Evolve to Succeed

The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Rupert Holloway

Mark Cribb

Urban Guild

Rick Stein

Helen Browning

Dan Smith

Jonathan Downey

Matthew Barker

Steve Jones

Martin Edwards

David Sax

Rob Wilson

Jack Stein

Ben Jackson

Gary Jones

OwlTail

How do you go from being a fisherman to successful owner of a holiday rental agency? Simon Tolson, managing director of Rumsey of Sandbanks, tells us his interesting entrepreneurial story.

How do you go from being a fisherman to successful owner of a holiday rental agency? Simon Tolson, managing director of <a href="https://www.rumseyofsandbanks.co.uk/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rumsey of Sandbanks</a>, tells us his interesting entrepreneurial story.

Simon Tolson - "2008 arrived and things went very wrong."

Simon Tolson has had his fair share of highs and lows to get to where he is now in hospitality.   An early high point was his first paid day as a fisherman. Since the age of 3 he’d wanted to fish and he felt like an astronaut when he stepped onto the deck…. But several years later, now married and with a mortgage, he had to switch careers.  He left the sea for a surprisingly different job - selling printers and photocopiers for Pitney Bowes.  That led to a new high, because the sales skills Simon developed not only worked for office equipment.  They came in handy when he turned his attention to holiday homes. It was the early noughties, and there were generous tax breaks if you were renovating a property as a holiday let. Simon and a colleague began to build a new business, offering holiday homes as  promising investments.  So far, so good.  But then in 2007, everything changed….  In this programme you’ll hear how Simon worked his way out of the prolonged low that followed… And how, despite challenging odds, he’s now the proud owner of Rumsey Holiday Homes, with beautiful views of the sea and the occasional chance to fish... 

Simon Tolson has had his fair share of highs and lows to get to where he is now in hospitality.   An early high point was his first paid day as a fisherman. Since the age of 3 he’d wanted to fish and he felt like an astronaut when he stepped onto the deck…. But several years later, now married and with a mortgage, he had to switch careers.  He left the sea for a surprisingly different job - selling printers and photocopiers for Pitney Bowes.  That led to a new high, because the sales skills Simon developed not only worked for office equipment.  They came in handy when he turned his attention to holiday homes. It was the early noughties, and there were generous tax breaks if you were renovating a property as a holiday let. Simon and a colleague began to build a new business, offering holiday homes as  promising investments.  So far, so good.  But then in 2007, everything changed….  In this programme you’ll hear how Simon worked his way out of the prolonged low that followed… And how, despite challenging odds, he’s now the proud owner of Rumsey Holiday Homes, with beautiful views of the sea and the occasional chance to fish...

#028 Simon Tolson - Rumsey Holiday Homes