It's just like your hotel. At SOME point you are going to be successful
enough
that both of you can't do the front office stuff, the promo stuff, the
supplies
ordering, making beds, fixing plumbing, painting, and all the other day in
and
day out tasks without severe lack of sleep or sanity. You have to offload
SOMETHING, and it will probably be the maid service, or the plumbing, or
something that is in fairly high supply and isn't vital to your core
mission of
RUNNING the hotel, not fixing dripping faucets.

Well, we've got three housekeepers, so we dumped THAT right away. :-)

And I've got a handyman who knows how to fix ANYTHING, so I guess I'm set
there, too. I can do the simple stuff, but when it comes to drywall and
plumbing, he's Da Man.

Accounting, however, is not something I want to farm out -- and Quickbooks
makes it almost easy. I want my finger on the pulse of the place every,
single day. I want to know how we're doing minute-to-minute, compared to
last month, and last year. It's the only way I can make business decisions
(I.E.: "Can we afford to re-landscape the front entrance?" Answer: "Yes")
with any sense of direction.

It's ironic, cuz my worst grade in college was "Accounting." In fact, that
one course convinced me to change my major from Business to Anything Else...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"