Share VRS049 – How One Sentence Ignited a Firestorm and Other Highlights from the VRMA Conference 2014 Just a few years after a ‘Save the VRMA’ campaign was launched and membership had slumped, this year’s VRMA Conference hit a record with over 1000 attendees, and it was […]
Share VRS043 – A Melting Pot of Complexity – Reinventing the Vacation Rental Industry with Richard Vaughton My guest in this episode is a microbiologist turned vacation rental guru, or maybe just an everyday genius who made a career change that is benefiting hundreds of owners and […]
Share 10 Mistakes VRBO’s Often Make – #5 will kill your business before it gets started Managing a vacation rental by owner property can be challenging. There is so much involved in creating a profitable vacation rental business that getting it right from the start is tough […]
Share Why More People Should Choose Vacation Rentals I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but having just spent a night in a (not inexpensive) Nassau hotel/resort, it just struck me that this is why vacation rentals […]
Share Buying a Rental Cottage – Setting the Criteria Given the great success we’ve had with our current vacation rental property, Osprey Cottage , we are now embarking on the search for a clone. I wish! Osprey is a […]
Share Trip Advisor Vacation Rental Annual Survey There is no doubt that the market in vacation rentals is growing as it becomes more of a mainstream method of vacationing and not that quirky thing that the neighbours […]
Share Rising Expectations of Vacation Rental Guests I’m curious to hear how many owners have experienced requests, or even demands from their guests for services that we would not expect to be provided in a vacation rental. […]
Share Can’t Sell? – Then Reap The Benefits of Vacation Rental The UK Times Online has addressed the issue of second home ownership in its article Strangers in Paradise. This mirrors the difficulties cottage owners are facing here in Ontario […]
Share Should Vacation Rentals be Licensed and Regulated? Here’s an interesting viewpoint on the fast growing vacation rental industry: “all vacation home owners who rent more than a couple of weeks in the year should be licensed and […]