Sarah

About Sarah

For most of my working life I’ve been in hospitality, running pubs, restaurants and hotels so I’m certainly a people person. I was in the hospitality industry for more than 20 years and was looking for a change when a chance meeting on a cruise made me realise that property was ideal for me!

I’m a property manager at Elliot Oliver and while this is different from running a restaurant, I’m using the people skills I developed in my earlier career. To be a good property manager you need lots of empathy and an ability to see both sides of a situation. You also need to be ready to deal with things you might not have come across before, while still keeping both the landlord and the tenant happy.

I’m fairly new to Cheltenham, but I’m getting to know the town and it’s great to be able to try out all the pubs and restaurants it has to offer. It’s fun to be on the other side of things and to enjoy some leisure time in a lovely environment.

My ideal letting would be an enormous barn in the middle of nowhere and I’d let it to a big rock star like Freddie Mercury so he could make loads of noise as he writes his next classic album. Hopefully I’d be able to have a go on some of the instruments, too!

When I’m not managing properties and learning more about the industry, I’m playing my own musical instruments. I didn’t have much time for music in my previous career, but now I’m getting back into it – I play the piano and keyboard, as well as the saxophone and violin. I’m also a keen gamer and my partner and I travel a lot. We’ve been to China and the US recently, with many more trips planned for the future.