For most vacation and furnished rental managers CAT really spells NO.  Cat owners will find that the vacation rental choices are very very limited if they must bring their cat along for the journey.
Pet Friendly should be modified to two categories for vacation homeowners – Dog Friendly and Cat Friendly.  Very few vacation rental manager owners will [...]

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“Sweet!  I got on VRBO for my new beach house CA vacation rental for $500 and we’re number 80 on the list!  That’s Good – Right?”
This is the question we received recently from a friend in California who decided to get into the vacation rentals market and advertised his new rental on VRBO.com – the top vacation [...]

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Updating previous post about Homeaway vacation rentals website advertising during the Super Bowl.  I think it is a really good move!  You can just imagine the possible scenarios of the Griswold’s rolling into cheesy hotels, cramped into a single small room and piling in unexpectedly at friends homes along the way!
Pretty impressive that Homeaway recreated [...]

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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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Just a few days under our belt in live beta testing and we’re working to debug any issues and improve in all areas.  You’ll see various changes and tweeks over the next few weeks as we fine tune the vacation rental map and detail pages for your listings.  If you have suggestions or specific issues you [...]

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It is no doubt that great images and a video presentation can help boost your vacation rental inquiries and reservations.  Not convinced?  Just think how many vacation rental listings are on the internet?  What seperates yours from the rest?  Go to any vacation rental directory and starting looking over the listings…do you spend even a [...]

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To keep your vacation rentals fully booked start with your EXPENSES!  WHAT?  Keeping your vacation rentals fully booked depends on several factors including your location, your peak seasons, your advertising efforts, the property, amenities, furnishings and your rental rates.  Do you notice how some availability calendars are consistently booked for the peak seasons and blank during [...]

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VACATION HOME EXPO 2008 GAINS SUPPORT OF VACATION HOME INDUSTRY

Greenwich, CT, October 5, 2007 – MSE Management, the producer of the Vacation Home Expo scheduled for April 11-13, 2008 in Atlanta, has announced that three of the leading associations in the vacation home industry have [...]

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Thank you to Blog of the Day Awards! It may be for only a day – but hey! We will take it. Not to mention they have a Google Page Rank of 5! The Daily Blog Of The Day Awards – Award for the best blogs submitted by visitors. – Best Blogger. [...]

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