Peter S. Scherman
The B&B Team
Telephone: (434) 286-4600
Email: bbteam@bbteam.com
Website: www.bbteam.com
Folly Castle Inn was built in 1763 by Peter Jones II, grandson of Peter Jones, for whom Petersburg was named. Between 1990 and the present, the house has been lovingly restored to its past grandeur. The Inn is conveniently located close to Richmond, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Washington DC, and Virginia Beach.
FEATURES:
:: Two rooms and three suites; each room has a private bath, private phone lines, desk, and comfortable seating area.
:: Four kitchens
:: Two sitting rooms, parlor, dining room
:: Three porches, three gardens, a Koi pond
:: Guest laundry and a friendly ghost
:: Occupancy rate for January–August 2005 is 89.5%; the Inn enjoys a large network of referrals and returning visitors.
:: Special events add to the income of the inn.
:: Parking is provided in a secure, off-street lot.
:: An English basement provides private living quarters for owners (1 or 2 bedrooms, large kitchen, bath, and laundry facilities). These quarters can easily be converted to two guest rooms.
:: Detached, two-car garage
:: Additional storage space includes large attic, and five-stall shed.
:: Local attractions include: Pamplin Park featuring Civil War history and a living museum; Petersburg Battlefield and the Battle of the Crater (as featured in the movie Cold Mountain); Blandford Church (one of six churches in the US with all Tiffany windows); museums; antique stores; convenient shopping; a wide array of locally-owned and chain restaurants, and Fort Lee.
ASKING: $795,000 Turnkey
by Martin Vernon of the Gazebo Bed and Breakfast.
Thankfully the days are long gone when staying at a bed and breakfast entailed sleeping in someone’s spare room with basic amenities (possibly including a tired shag carpet) and a shared bathroom “down the hall”. Hardly romantic!
I have recently changed my web hosting company and also my email. I have to report that it was a month of hassles, which I expected. I had had the same email since we opened our B&B in Staunton, Virginia since 2000. This has resulted over time in receiving over 350 emails per day of which about 90% or more was spam. This was in spite of the fact that I had many filters on my server and Norton on my home computer.
In order to cancel my old emails I had to find all the B&B sites on which I was listed so that I could ask them to update my email address. This was a good exercise as I discovered that I was listed on 20 B&B directories and I only pay for 7 of them. Some of these produce no business that I can tell of, but a free listing offers an off chance of getting 1 or 2 bookings a year so is still worth it. The reason some are free is that I got onto them when they started out as a B&B directory and so offered to list a B&B for free. Since then, nearly all of them now charge a fee.
