August 27, 2010
The summer is winding down; when I make the” Essence of Summer” (boil those ripe tomatoes with the herbs in our garden, add onions, scallions, a clove of garlic, cook ½ hour and put through food-strainer-mill and freeze in small containers, and use it in stews, tomato soup etc. in the deep of [...]

August 6, 2010
We all know when your gardens are in full bloom, the weeds are prolific and rapidly taking over, it’s summer! Our Inn-beds are filled with city weary souls that love our location! Love that rural ambiance, that natural environment that we culture and protect for them; that they can [...]

June 11, 2010
Why stay at Inns? I can’t believe when I stay at an Inn that I have never been to before, that there is yet one more way, that the Inn-keepers can be different, and running their Inn uniquely from any other place that I have been. Yes, it is partly the setting, it [...]

For 30 years we have worked to promote hospitality throughout the USA; and we owned the 3 Mountain Inn for about 5 years, in Jamaica, Vermont. Our business is to promote viable Inn and B&B businesses, to teach in our seminars the financial and personal qualifications to be successful Inn-keepers. We give workshops at National [...]

Bill Oates and Heide Bredfeldt receive PAII’s first annual “Award of Merit” an award for their long service to Innkeeping industry!

It’s January and we are embracing a New Year; a new decade! I am stewing about the importance of having values; what were your thoughts to lead you forward to consider Inn-keeping or actually becoming an Inn-keeper? What was it that made you decide to leave the corporate milieu? There is lots of turmoil in [...]

Happy New Year to you all out there! It is always startling to realize another year has passed. We are beginning a new era; it’s now the year 2010 … awesome! Out of my window the wind is blowing, snow has been pushed up into piles, and the streets are mostly clear, but not the [...]

A view from Brattleboro, Vermont.
Most of us are tempted, at times, to seek another profession.  There are not many other countries that offer that opportunity as liberally as this one! So, why not? Then how about considering being an Innkeeper?  You would be your own boss, create a wonderful ambiance for the worn out, tired [...]

Walking through our woods in early morning, the air fresh, Chocolat my Weimaraner, sprinting after a scent of maybe a bobcat, deer, porcupine, or chipmunk, pointing at birds, I revel in my good fortune of living in Vermont; on Newfane Hill and toiling in my favorite town, Brattleboro.
Those walks clear my head. But often my [...]

After almost 30 years visiting Inns, giving seminars on Innkeeping, consulting in the transfer of hundreds of Inns and B&B’S, our commitment has not varied: we love the Inn business and are proud to be part of this hospitality niche. There is PAII and Select Registry to provide on-going training and updates on every imaginable [...]