Good afternoon, As a second home owner renting out your property throughout the year I am pleased to bring you the safest and simplest way to manage your home from miles away without the needs for keys! It will be of great benefit to you and will make your life so much easier when dealing [...]
In last Sunday’s Boston Globe, there was an article talking about staying in a vacation rental for a great honeymoon experience. The article really got me thinking about how vacation rental owners are marketing their vacation rentals properties – specifically, the description of the property and the photos that owners post of the property. What [...]
Although it’s a tough thing to ask owners to constantly keep their calendars updated, or respond to renters when they send an inquiry for a date range that the owner already has booked, it is an unending source of frustration for renters. Anytime I receive an email inquiry, I make an effort to respond immediately, [...]
The verdict on the true cost of spending your vacation in a hotel versus staying in a vacation rental is in, and I have the proof. For a family on a vacation, a vacation rental provides great accommodations for far less money. I just had a very unique personal experience that allowed me to test [...]
Every vacation rental property owner gets questions from prospective renters like: How far away from the beach is your unit? How do I get to your property? Where is the nearest grocery store? Do you have a map of the area? Community Walk (www.communitywalk.com) provides a great utility to build custom maps that showcase Sample [...]
by Alfred & Emily Glossbrenner of FullyBookedRentals Here’s a sad scenario: The day before your next guests are due to check in, they call with bad news. One of them is too sick to travel. Or there’s been a death in the family. Or a major ice storm has brought down power lines and closed [...]
Hello Fellow Vacation Rentals Owners: Late last week, FindVacationRentals.com released a completely revamped website with new features designed to attract and keep renters attention. It also offers new ways for owners to market and promote their properties. And the best part – this comes with no price increase to our owner community. Some of the [...]
It’s often said that “the Internet changes everything.” Certainly it has changed–even disrupted–the traditional relationship between vacation-rental owners and their property managers. At the very least, it has introduced a spectrum of possibilities. For some brave souls, the Internet has made it possible to take on everything: marketing, managing, advertising, maintenance–you name it. But what [...]
From a management prospective, i think it is essential to talk to each guest. I deal with a lot of group bookings, and sometimes the groups try to over-max the property, but we would never know this if we didn’t talk to them and tell them the rules. plus it is a bonus to form [...]
Fellow Vacation Rental Owners: As a vacation home rental owner and operator of a vacation rentals by owner advertising website, I have been following the situation closely with regards to the recent sharp decline in both real estate prices (commercial and single family homes) and the stock market. Like a lot of investors out there [...]
As both vacation rental property owners and vacation rental advertising website operators, we have often had other vacation rental owners as well as online and offline publications ask us what really drives the vacation rentals by owner market. After a lot of thought and a lot of years of experience, we’ve distilled it down to [...]
I’m always looking for ways to show off my unit, recently I learned of a great FREE new 3D photo-stitching service offered by Microsoft. What is 3D photo-stitching? Its sewing together a number of images to form a larger composite image. The technology has been around for a while and is used to create [...]
Most search engines provide a way for business to manually enter their own information on their maps and search results. While just posting won’t ensure you come up at the top, or even the first page. If you list your rental properties address it pick your keywords right, you may come up in a geographic [...]
Hello fellow vacation rental owners: I’m not entirely sure what experience everyone out there is having with keeping your rentals booked with the touch economic times, but I am sure about one thing: the two most popular adjectives attached to all search traffic on the Internet are “cheap” and “discount”. In general, everyone likes to [...]
Hello Fellow Owners: I had the good fortune of being able to do some traveling in Europe and Northern Africa this past summer. Of course, I used my own site, http://www.findvacationrentals.com, as my first choice when locating vacation rental properties to stay at on my trip. After spending a lot of time as a prospective [...]
Hello fellow owners: As both an owner of a vacation rental website and as an owner of several vacation rental properties, we are often asked what owners can do to help keep their vacation rentals fully booked when inquiries and bookings slow down in an off season. We’ve tried lots of different things, just like [...]
Hello fellow owners: Marketing your vacation rental website online can be an excellent way to keep your property fully booked. These days, with a bad overall economy, it is even more important to keep that revenue coming in even when you are not in your peak season. Fortunately, there are lots of options for vacation [...]