Services

Everything I do for a holiday rental

Fourteen services in four areas. Hire me for one, combine several, or hand me the whole project.

I do it myself

  • Planning works and kitchens
  • Decor and outdoor spaces
  • Pool maintenance
  • Repairs and troubleshooting
  • Photography and video
  • Listings and guest messages
  • Set-up, procedures and training
  • Networks and cameras in normal-sized houses
  • Operations automation with software

I subcontract and supervise

  • Kitchen fitting (I supervise the preparation)
  • Pool building and equipment
  • Electrical installations
  • Networks and cameras on bigger projects
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The house

What guests see, use and break.

  • João Galhardo marking a floor plan in pencil in a kitchen under refurbishment, the units not yet fitted.

    Refurbishment planning

    A survey of what the house needs, a works plan, bathrooms included, quotes from builders, a schedule, and follow-up until handover. Works planned for the people who will sleep there.

  • Kitchens

    A kitchen designed for people who cook on holiday: storage, appliances and finishes that take the wear. I choose the supplier with you, supervise the preparation work and follow the fitting, which is done by fitters I subcontract.

  • João Galhardo placing a terracotta pot with an olive tree beside the sofa on a terrace under a reed pergola.

    Interior and exterior decor

    A concept for the house, buying and assembling the furniture and decor, and outdoor spaces to match: garden, planting, terrace and seating areas.

  • João Galhardo crouched at the edge of a pool, comparing a water sample with the test colour chart.

    Pool maintenance

    Water treatment, cleaning and equipment checks, so the pool is ready for every arrival. Building work and equipment installation go to professionals I subcontract and supervise.

  • João Galhardo, wearing a head torch, tightening the tap connection under the kitchen sink with an adjustable spanner.

    Repairs and troubleshooting

    Whatever breaks in a house: diagnosis, repair, or the right person to do it, without leaving the guest waiting.

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The listing and the guests

What makes someone choose your house, and what you tell them afterwards.

  • João Galhardo photographing a styled living room with the camera on a tripod, checking the shot on its screen.

    Photography and video

    Interiors, exteriors and video for your listings, website and social media. Aerial shots with a sub-250 g drone once its ANAC registration is complete.

  • Listings on the portals

    Creating and fine-tuning your listing on Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and other portals: copy, photos, house rules, policies and prices.

  • João Galhardo at a window with the booking calendar on his laptop and a chat open on his phone.

    Messages for guests and staff

    Every message template, from the booking confirmation to the review request: arrival instructions, house rules, check-out. In several languages, ready to use on the portal or in your channel manager. And the message templates for your team, so everyone knows what to do and when.

  • Licensing, guest booklet and signage

    Help with registering the holiday rental (alojamento local) and with what Portuguese law asks afterwards: the AL plaque, the complaints book, guest registration with SIBA and the INE survey, where it applies. Plus the house information booklet and the signage.

  • Ready for sale

    Selling the house?

    Home staging, photos, video and AI scenarios that show buyers what the house could become. For estate agents and owners.

    See how it works
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The business

The numbers, the team and the way of working.

  • João Galhardo showing an owner a chart of income and costs at a terrace table.

    Business administration

    Financial projections, cost and income analysis, and advice on the methods, processes and procedures that take the business to your goal: selling, getting credit, or the highest yield. I work by project and as an adviser; running the business day to day is open to discussion.

  • João Galhardo going through a checklist with two housekeepers in the laundry room.
    Main service

    Set-up, procedures and training

    Getting a rental running from scratch, or running better: written procedures, cleaning and maintenance checklists, staff training and tools that save your team hours every week. It is what I did to open Quinta da Capelinha and Miradouro da Penha.

  • Human resources

    Hiring, rotas, attendance sheets, holidays and the link with your accountant, for a team that knows what to do.

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Technology

What connects the house, protects it when nobody is there and saves work for whoever runs it.

  • João Galhardo on a stepladder, screwing a security camera to the outside wall of a house.

    Networks, cameras and home automation

    Wi-Fi that reaches the whole house, CCTV with the notices the law requires, smart locks, automations and smart-home devices. In a normal-sized house I install and configure them myself; on bigger projects I coordinate the installers.

  • João Galhardo checking a tablet in a small office, his phone on the desk, a Wi-Fi access point on the wall and a smart lock on the door.

    Operations automation

    Software that takes repetitive work off the host, for example automatic guest messages, a cleaning schedule built from the bookings, alerts to the team and reports. I set it up and get it running; when the job needs custom software, I pass it to Galhardo.Cloud.

  • IT department

    Custom software? That is Galhardo.Cloud.

    Websites with direct booking, management apps, automations and AI agents. It is my IT department, and it has its own home.

    Open galhardo.cloud

How we agree a job

Quote on request
Every house is different. Tell me what you need and I send you a quote before anything starts.
By project or as an adviser
Hire me just for the photos, just for the guest messages, or for the whole set-up, from the works plan to training your team. Running the business day to day is open to discussion.
Where I work
In person in the Algarve, and beyond it for projects within travelling distance. Remotely, wherever you are, for listings, messages, procedures and admin.
Next step

Tell me what the house needs

A message with what you are looking for and where the house is will get us started.