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Building Your Company’s Vacation Rental Inventory
Building a vacation rental inventory for your management company follows many of the same techniques that real estate agents use for obtaining new listings. It’s all about building your professional and personal contacts, networking, farming, salesmanship, and performance. Search Engine Rankings Maintaining a high rank in the search engines is crucial to successful property recruitment. New prospects will want … Continue reading
Marketing Your Vacation Rentals With Video
Video marketing isn’t anything new to vacation rentals, but the importance of including a video campaign as part of your overall marketing strategy is more important than ever. Search engines love video just as much as humans do and vacation rental managers and owners are using video to showcase properties and promote their businesses with great success. Here are a … Continue reading
Make Your Vacation Rental Stand Out From The Competition
The stagnant real estate market is forcing property owners to produce income instead of selling and new vacation rentals are coming on the market every day. So what can you do to stand out? Here are a few suggestions for gaining an edge over the competition. Update your description and photos. Re-write your rental listing’ headline and description to evoke … Continue reading
Vacation Rental Marketing – Internet and Social Media
The growth of the vacation rental industry is a direct result of the internet phenomenon. It has never been easier to reach out to potential renters and advertise vacancies. The trick is knowing where to spend your time and money for maximum effect. The following is a primer on internet marketing. If you don’t have an … Continue reading
The Big Bear Vacation Rental Market
Vacation rentals have been a popular lodging choice in Big Bear for decades. What was once a cottage industry with just a handful of players has turned into one of the most competitive vacation rental markets in all of California. With the advent of the internet the Big Bear vacation rental market has exploded into … Continue reading
Vacation Rental Services
Vacation rental management is a unique blend of property management, real estate marketing, and hospitality services. With the right mix of knowledge, time, and effort, your vacation rental can generate enough income to cover expenses and possibly show a profit. Unfortunately, the real estate meltdown has forced many property owners into the rental market, unprepared for the realities of property management and … Continue reading
Insuring Your Vacation Rental – Four Basic Rules
Finding and maintaining the correct property and liability insurance for your vacation rental can be a challenge. Most vacation rental properties are located in high risk areas such as low-lying beach towns or in national forests and that alone can make finding insurance difficult. Add into the equation that the property will be rented on a part-time basis … Continue reading
Preparing Your Property For The Rental Market
The vacation rental market is one of the fastest growing segments of the lodging industry. If you own a home in a popular resort area, convert your property into a vacation rental and generate income when you’re not using it. Here are a few suggestions to help you prepare your property for the rental market. … Continue reading
Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals
Vacation rental property owners must try to accommodate the wants and needs of potential guests by offering amenities that appeal to the traveling public. One of the most popular amenities that owners should consider is to be a “pet-friendly” vacation rental. A recent study showed that almost 60% of adult pet owners plan to take their four-legged family members on … Continue reading
Vacation Rental Services
Vacation Rental Services provides business development and marketing consulting services for vacation rental property owners and managers. We are in the business of educating and enlightening the vacation rental industry in all areas of rental management including: intenet marketing, website development and hosting, software solutions, social media marketing, property staging, rental agreements, forms, policy, and procedure. Doug Meeder, company founder, … Continue reading