Yep – what type of beds you outfit your vacation rental with directly affect your bookings!  How is that you might ask?

Let’s take a look at several scenarios including 1, 2, 3 and 4 plus bedroom vacation homes.  Renters of 1 br furnished rentals will prefer a king size bed as opposed to a queen or [...]

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Photos, photos and more photos!  You can visit just about any vacation rental website and you’re bound to see some blurry and really horrible thumbnail images for listed homes.  How about the distorted and stretched thumbnail shots that make you want to get an eye exam?  Or how about the owner who decides to post a [...]

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Fantastic Views – Sedona, AZ Vacation Rental
 
Furnishedhomes.com – Vacation Rentals by Map is searching for your great travel and vacation rental images!  Our graphic design team is calling for some really great images that will appear on the “Home” page for Furnished Homes.  The image files need to be big and high resolution.  So if [...]

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Home Away – aka Homeaway.com, Vacationrentals.com, Vrbo.com, etc. announces that they will be advertising in February 2010 Super Bowl.  Vacation homeowners and managers report receiving emails advising them that Homeaway based in Austin, Texas will be advertising during Superbowl XLIV in Miami, Florida.
Great news for vacation rental owners and vacation rental directories as this will [...]

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Vacation Rental owners can now post to their listings that they are interested in the possibility of exchanging vacation rentals with other owners.  Make other owners aware that you are open to possible trades – my beach house for your ski cabin?  Select the option in step 1 of add or edit a property and [...]

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Vacationrentals.com, part of the Homeaway network, is starting to increase advertising rates in October.  Renewals for listings for 3 months listings will increase on October 6, 2009 from $69 to $99, an increase of nearly 45%.  A one year listing at Vacationrentals.com will increase from $169 to $199 per year, or approximately 18% higher.
The Austin, [...]

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Vacation rental map site Furnishedhomes.com secures and authenticates site for visitors with leading online SSL provider Comodo.  Furnished Homes domain name is authenticated by Comodo.com and provides for strong encryption for a secure HTTPS connection. 
Why Furnishedhomes.com chooses Comodo for online security?
Comodo is a leading global provider of Identity and Trust Assurance services on the Internet, with over 500,000 [...]

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We’ve upgraded the vacation rental map and details pages at Furnished Homes!  Here’s some quick views of the details pages.  If you have a Youtube video for your home it will be the first picture (video) that travelers see.  We’re still tweeking the page and will keep you posted.  In the meantime why not post [...]

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This is definitely NOT Vacationey!  Great pick honey!
Having owned or managed hundreds of vacation rentals I speak from experience when I ask – “Is your vacation rental vacationey?”  Often I am asked what does it take to turn a home into “a vacation home”.  That’s a great question!  Some homes quiet frankly were never meant [...]

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Recent question to support team – “Your vacation rental offering is very good and listing fees are really low – do you take a commission for leads or bookings?”
Answer:  Nope.  When you list your vacation properties on the Furnished Homes map – you receive all the visitor inquiries.  Owners and property managers are contacted directly.  [...]

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