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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Furnishedhomes.com – The Place to Find Furnished Rentals adds new features to a pretty nifty vacation rental website.  Rolling out will be Guest Reviews, Google Nearby Mapping for each vacation rental listing, increase of high resolution images to 25, a second link to owners and managers personal websites, the ability to adjust for nearly any [...]

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Furnished Homes – The Place to Find Furnished Rentals introduces new improved Nearby Map features to aide travelers in searching vacation rentals online.  This new feature allows the traveler to see the nearest coffee shops, fitness centers, movie theatres, theme parks, Italian food, and just about anything searchable on Google. 
The screen shot above shows my recent search for a Taos, New [...]

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Most vacation rental directories are in the form of a list.  Furnished Homes was developed with the Google interactive map for searches.  In testing the navigation of the site over the last few months we decided that it would be best to have the option for travelers to view listings by Map and by List.

The Furnished [...]

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Vacation Renters and Vacation Homeowners be aware of scams that are perpetrated by both parties!
The most common scam aimed at the Vacation Rental Owners is that of “over-payments”.  Many of these inquiries to owners are similar in the fact that the traveler suggests that their employer will be covering all travel related expenses.  The will go into [...]

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Vacation Rentals by Map? Chances are you have used a map recently to find a friend’s house for a birthday party, mapped out a local theatre or instructed your car navigation system to help you find a location. Google maps, Mapquest and Microsoft Visual Earth maps – they are here to stay.
Maps are popping up [...]

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Have you viewed some really cool vacation rental photos lately? Why do some images look so good and some look so bad? How much time do you spend looking at bad photos? When you market your vacation rental homes you need GREAT photos!
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Furnished Homes offers featured listings at $5 monthly or about the cost of a latte. This option allows owners and managers to feature any listing for a period of 1 to 12 months and for only $5 monthly. A featured listing will give you more exposure than a standard free listing and it [...]

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We are witnessing a fairly dramatic increase in the market place for vacation rentals by owner. Just take a peek at some of the “Big Boy” vacation rental by owner sites and you will see a surge in the number of “vacation rentals” that are now coming to market.
Reality check has arrived for many [...]

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