Vacation Rentals International

Five Random Vacation Rental Tips

1) Vacation home listings can be found in magazines, newspapers, online and through rental agencies and Realtors. 2) One of the best ways to find a vacation rental is to ask friends and neighbors. A recommendation from someone who has stayed in a particular home or used a particular rental agency ...

Working Christmas Morning?!

Bosses don't get much of a break during the holiday season — half of Canadian executives and 76 per cent of their counterparts in the United States feel compelled to check in with the office at least a few times a week during their vacations, according to a new poll. The ...

Cool Vacation Rental Site

In terms of clean, easy to use sites, I think that I found one everyone can agree on Vast.com has a pretty decent vacation rental section, and really some really detail searching features. Check it out.

You Vacation Rental

I found a good quote while reading other Vacation Rental Blogs. Photos are the window to your property and are usually the deciding factor in a vacationer choosing to rent your home...Are they blurry? Do they reflect the updates that you have made to the property? Is there good lighting? Be ...

Movie location vacations can be the best

Bill Spencer / WXYZ Channel 7 Action News Have you ever watched a fantastic movie and said to yourself, "I've just got to go there"? For me, the movie was "Summer of '42" and the place was Mendocino, Calif. I was so caught up by the romance in that film and ...

Did you say Mancations?

Mancations is yet another fancy marketing catch phrase being thrown around by big hotels looking for all your money. Hotels like the Regent South Beach are offering everything from poker parties to hand-rolled cigars, buckets of beer to sports tickets, all in hopes of tapping a growing market. Sure that sounds ...

Roadside America

Some of my favorite memories are of the road trips I've taken. I think everyone needs to take at least five road trips in their lifetime. I bet you were expecting me to say one right? Well one road trip is never enough. See, if it is everyone's first road ...

Your vacation rental - How to be successful - Part IV

Tricks of the trade Today will be a brief but important lesson. We will go over a few important parts of a website that a lot of people who are building private vacation rental property websites overlook. First and probably most important is your page title. A website without a page title ...

Your vacation rental - How to be successful - Part III

The Do's and Don'ts of websites You've got your content, you know exactly how you want it laid out and maybe you even know what crazy pattern you want the background to be. In fact, you may even know exactly how you want everything to look. STOP RIGHT NOW. Before you go any ...

Your vacation rental - How to be successful - Part II

If you have done some research into making your own vacation rental website then you will a notice a few things that all good owner-run vacation rentals use to entice guests into booking their property. Can you guess? There are really two answers that go hand in hand – pictures ...