Preplan for gifts for the month or the season

Purchase birthday cards, personalized stationary, wrapping supplies and stamps weeks ahead of your needs so you can mail cards and gifts right away. Find gifts that are appropriate and meaningful for all ages. Consider online gift cards (or online e-cards), Visa check cards and other simple gifts that will be appreciated by everyone. Personalize your gift with a message to create a signature touch.

Fini Concierge can assist you with every aspect of this process. We have frequently helped our clients by providing gift options and then making sure the gift is picked up or ordered and delivered on time! Time and time again our clients have expressed their feelings of gratitude for assistance with this task because it is time consuming but is something they still want completed with their personal touch.

Fini Concierge, Your Car & The Ferry

Having your car on the Island during your vacation makes life a lot simpler. Getting your car to and from the Island can sometimes put a wrench in your vacation planning!

But now it doesn’t have to…

Fini Concierge is available to help coordinate the transportation of your vehicle. Fini Concierge will:

• Make ferry reservations
• Drive your car to and from the ferry
• Ensure that your car gets on the ferry safely

Supporting Local Community

Fini Concierge has been dedicated to supporting the local community over the past number of years by attending community events, participating in local walks and donating to local charities and auctions. This is one of the many reasons I (Marissa) love working here! These experiences not only enrich the business as a whole but also enrich each of us personally. I believe that each of our daily interactions with clients and service providers is always another chance to support our community. If you are a business owner, how do you support your local community? And if you are not a business owner, how would you like to see local businesses supporting the community?

Seasonal Tips

The long winter months are over, spring is in bloom, & before we know it summer will be here. To make sure your home is prepared for the season, start on these seasonal maintenance projects.

Running low on time? Call on Fini Concierge to help with all your spring & summer maintenance needs and Consider it done.

Inside Your Home:
1) Have your AC vents checked.
2) Make sure that your window and door screens are intact.
3) Remove any insulation you put on outdoor water pipes in preparation for winter, and check for any possible leaks.
4) Clean, clean, clean. Hire house cleaners to do a through cleaning.

Outside Your Home:
1) Spring is the time for gardening and flowers.
2) Make sure that your sprinkler system is in working order.
3) Take out your patio furniture and make sure it gets a thorough cleaning and repair.
4) Clean your gutters
5) A fresh coat of paint on will make a dramatic difference on anything indoors or out.

Working with Service Providers

Have you ever felt frustrated, stressed or upset when working with a service provider? Sometimes it can be difficult to communicate with a professional when you don't have the terminology or knowledge about your project or when your service provider doesn't understand your needs. Tell us about an experience you have had with a service provider, good or bad, and share the kind of support or tools you think could have helped you get through the project?

There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing a service provider and sometimes you just don't have the time. From start to finish, communication is a big part of working with a contractor. The project needs to be clearly outlined, a time frame needs to be estimated, a cost estimate needs to be provided, follow up is essential and flexibility is required. Many times when starting a project, other projects are discovered and the scope of the original project changes. With the steps of this process in mind it is no wonder that miscommunication can happen and that frustration or stress can develop.

Through experience, we have developed relationships with many reputable, reliable and trustworthy service providers. By understanding the in's and out's of this process we can really save our clients time and stress in order to complete well done projects. This doesn't mean every project goes off without a hitch; but we are experts in making sure these hitches don't hinder the integrity of the project.

Gearing Up For The Cape

As the weather starts to warm up and we start taking our summer gear out of the attic, it’s a sign that summer is FINALLY around the corner. There are many summer destinations, but there isn’t anything better then hopping in the car after work on Friday and in a quick 1.5 hours you find yourself on the Cape with your toes in the sand and drink in hand before the sun sets.

We at Fini Concierge are especially excited about this summer on the Cape. With the opening of our new office last spring we were able to meet a lot of great people and to develop a lot of new ideas that we are excited about sharing with our clients this summer. However, we are always looking for new ideas to help grow Fini’s Cape office as well as develop relationships with new and old vendors. This is where we enlist you (our blogger) to help do some foot work.

What services do you think would be helpful to offer to our Cape clients?

The Fini Concierge Blog -- Revitalized!

The Fini Concierge blog has been dormant for many months but will have new life breathed into it with the help of other members of the Fini Concierge team. Now, instead of just hearing from me – Chantal, you’ll now have the opportunity to hear from other members of our team, including Allison Nadeau and Marissa Miller Bennett.

We look forward to continuing to share our experiences, tips and lessons learned with you through our blog – we hope you’ll enjoy reading it and please, we always want to hear from you, so send us your feedback!