Registered travelers can save their favorites to the right of the main vacation rental map.  You can see in the snapshot below that the saved favorites can be deleted, viewed and email owners direct.  Visitors can also send multiple inquiries to several owners at one time.  Each time you come back to the vacation rental [...]

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Here is a snapshot of the new and improved vacation rental search on our map.  Notice that you can filter you searches by nightly, weekly and monthly rates; bedrooms, bathrooms, if the home allows for pets, provides internet access etc. 

We will post a short video tutorial showing the refinements in action.  This tool is especially [...]

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We’re adding your vacation rentals to our Twitter and Facebook feeds for even more exposure.  All new listings are tagged and sent to our twitter.com/furnishedhomes and facebook.com/furnishedhomes accounts. 

Visitors are directed back to your details page and/or mapped contact owner.  Visitors do not need to register to send inquiries and booking requests to owners. 
If you are [...]

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We find that the vast majority of vacation renter inquiries often ask the same questions to owners:

Where are you located and what’s nearby?
Do you have internet access?
Can I bring a small dog?
Do you have availability?

By far – most inquiries from travelers in our experience over the last 7 years as owner/managers have asked ”where is your rental [...]

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You can get free vacation rental exposure for your homes right now on our map.  Register for free and add a basic listing and we will upgrade your listing to standard and then you can add 11 more images, link to your site and more.

If you are still skeptical – then let us do the [...]

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Want to be friends on Facebook?  Furnished Homes vacation rental map site is now on Facebook!  Check us out and let’s become even better friends.  We’ve posted a few vacation homes with images that you posted to your Furnished Homes listings.  They look great and travelers are clicking back to your listings to view more [...]

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Beta test contest.  Send us an email to support@furnishedhomes.com and the first 10 emails will receive a $99 upgraded rental listing.  It’s only open to the first 10 emails that are legitimate - point us to your personal website for your vacation rentals or point us to the web where we can find pictures, descriptions and [...]

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Furnishedhomes.com allows travelers to save favorites and submit emails with single entry.  In other words, you can now send the same inquiry to several vacation homeowners at once.
Let’s say you are going to San Diego and you have narrowed your favorites to 6 properties that you are really interested in.  One click to contact all [...]

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Many travelers want to see the wildlife at your vacation home.  Maybe an eagle soaring over the lake, squirrels scampering up the pine trees, javelinas (wild pigs) marching across the golf course or even just the smallest hummingbird coming up to window for a quick sip of nectar.  Even if your vacation home does not [...]

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I’ve had a bit of experience with this one.  About half of our vacation home rentals have tiled floors and the other half carpet.  I have found that if we are extremely fortunate we only have to clean the carpets every 45 to 90 days.  At a cost of $100-$150 per unit it really adds up.
The [...]

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