Share VRS003 – Being a Vacation Rental Guest In this session I explore the experience of being a guest. With a recent vacation in a Bahamas villa fresh in my mind, as well as the memories of many […]
Share Pleasing Guests From The Start – A Pura Vida Experience Each year we rent a vacation home for our February vacation. We can be fairly specific in our needs but I am usually swayed by terrific photographs and great reviews. […]
Share Top 8 Vacation Rental Lessons I’ve Learned – Guest Post by Matt Landau When I first started in the vacation rental business, I knew next to nothing. I was on vacation. I met some Dutch businessmen. I looked at some contracts. And […]
Share A Year of Vacation Rental Learning – Part Two Following my previous post on the things we learned in the first half of 2011, here’s the second part. It was a very successful and profitable year and we enjoyed […]
Share A Year of Vacation Rental Learning – Part One The New Year is always a time for reflection and now that January is just about gone, I’ve already applied a lot of the learning points from 2011 to our […]
Share Being a Guest in a Vacation Rental I’ve stayed in several vacation rental properties this year and am now looking forward to my first visit to Costa Rica in February where we’ve rented Flying Toucans, an […]
Share Washing bedding in vacation rental homes How often do you wash the bedding in your vacation rental property? I don’t mean the sheets and pillow covers that are more likely to come into direct contact with […]
Share What’s in a Listing Site? This seems to be the time of year when every day sees another email proclaiming the best listing site….ever….more features, more photos, reaching more renters, more bookings etc, etc, etc. […]
Share Being A Guest in a Holiday Home Our recent trip back to UK was fleeting but it was a great week, enjoying the spring, visiting family and friends, and doing a lot of catching up. It was […]
Share Kid in a Candy Store at the Vacation Rental Managers Association Conference I had an interesting and very educational few days at the Vacation Rental Managers Association Conference in San Antonio this week, and am now heading home for Ontario with a […]