As the chief bottle washer at Furnished Rentals dot com I get to see many, many vacation rental websites.  They range from awesome to awful!  Let’s look at a couple of awesome sites and forget about the awful – because that’s what people searching the internet are going to do too!
 
This first group of Venice [...]

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FurnishedRentals.com launched new enhancements today.  The Furnished Rentals vacation rental by owner and manager site has always utilized Google maps technology to help travelers locate their next vacation getaway and now they are integrating Google Apps. 
Furnished Rentals preferred members can now post their Google Calendars and use Google Analytics to track results for their vacation rentals.  When Gmail [...]

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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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We’re updating the Furnished Homes vacation rental map owner and manager panels.  We will be implementing a streamlined panel for vacation homeowners to track hits to your listings, Google analytics, easy upgrades and subscriptions.
Look for an announcement in the next week or so about the new owner panel launch and site updates.  By the way [...]

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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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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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We’ve been experimenting a bit lately with links from vacation rentals listed on Furnished Homes.  You’ll notice that if you type in your city or title for your vacation rental the search bar will allow you to choose your listing. 
For example, if we type in Tucson, AZ there are choices for Tucson listings by property id [...]

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It can be unsettling to leave your vacation rental unattended for an extended period of time.  You never know if you are going to come back to serious water damage issues or expensive maintenance problems.  For this reason many rent by owner vacation rental owners hire a professional service to routinely check on their property [...]

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Simple gestures or helpful tools can often set your vacation rentals guests off in the proper mindset and help make their stay more enjoyable. Of course your vacation rentals need to be clean and presentable – but the little extras like a welcome book and a few little extras show that you care and that [...]

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