Just a quick follow up to Homeaway’s Superbowl ad.  Here is a link to Austin Business Journal and it shows success for Homeaway’s ad campaign. View more details and the full article here.  As stated earlier here the ad campaign should drive awareness for the vacation home rental industry as a whole.
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I noticed a recent travel inquiry for a vacation rental come in:  “We found you online at FurnishedRentals.com and wanted to be sure that the pool can accommodate our family.  Just want to double check because our kids really like to swim and the last trip to Florida we stayed in a vacation condo community [...]

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There are some great deals to be had right now when you rent a vacation home by owner.  However, remember that you still get what you pay for.  You can find a beach house rental in San Diego for $50 nightly but what will you find when you arrive? 

Great Deal Vacation Rental or Flop House? 
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Back in the “Good Ole Days” when you could check just about as much baggage as you could lug up to an airline check-in counter, we would take the kids strollers, car seats, pack n plays, snap on high chairs and a bazillion other necessary baby and toddler accessories.  We would laugh that the adults [...]

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A Hotel room used to be an option for our family of 6.  The kids were small and I remember they could sleep 3 easy in a queen bed.  Ah, the good ole days! If we were really lucky and paid a premium we could find a suite hotel room.  This would give us adults privacy in a separate room [...]

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Vacation Rentals are not just for vacations!  We’ve written about this before but it’s worth bringing up again.  If you are looking for new sources of visitors trade shows, events and seminars may be the ticket?  In my latest “internet surfing” adventures I found something that caught my eye.  It was a banner ad somewhere, on some site, [...]

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Vacation home renters often choose to stay in homes, condos and villas to enjoy more space for less money. Now you can save money on Greens fees too! We stumbled across the Golfnow.com website a few years back by chance.Many of our vacation rentals in the desert southwest are near golf courses and our visitor inquiries often ask about reduced greens fees [...]

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A “shout-out” to our friends at Blogcatalog. The Furnished Homes vacation rental blog is in the Spotlight! Our visitors are searching the Furnished Homes Maps to find vacation rentals -will they find you? Add unlimited vacation rentals today for 6 months free – no obligation! There’s no disputing the fact that [...]

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Does anyone really care about the beds anyway? Yes! Have you ever slept in a crummy bed? Chances are we all have had a bad night sleep or rolled out of bed with a back ache from sleeping on a BAD mattress. One summer I found a great vacation rental on Coronado [...]

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Scottsdale, Arizona is in the “spotlight” at Furnished Homes this week. This amazing desert city is adjacent to Phoenix and is considered to be one of the premier and upscale destinations for travelers today.
The city is loosely divided into four main areas: South Scottsdale (McKellips Road north to Chaparral Road), Old Town (Downtown) [...]

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