Archive for July, 2008

Vacation Rental Industry Growth Still Strong

Monday, July 21st, 2008

According to the Zonder survey, the vacation rental industry hasn’t been adversely affected by the recent downturn in the worldwide economy. In fact, the vacation rental industry appears to remain strong as dictated by 100% of the property management companies surveyed.
Here are the Zonder survey results:
• While 100% of PMCs reporting said the number of bookings has remained steady, over […]

Vacation Rentals Feeds

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Free-Rentals.com now supports Atom Feeds for listings of…
 
1) New Vacation Rentals
2) Vacation Rental Special Promotional Offers
3) Vacation Rentals Available Right Now 
 
If you are seeking a vacation rental on a regular basis. Please consider signing up for one of these feeds to keep up to date with the listing on Free-Rentals.com.
If you are a vacation rental […]

Dateblocker Sucks

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Ok, we were wrong when we wrote THIS post about dateblocker. Dateblocker is a calendar system for vacation rental owners.
Disclaimer… we have contacted them a couple times to try and initiate partnership, but never heard back from them.
 
Anyway, thats not why they suck… they suck because.. well, they suck. We tried using their calendar services, […]

FBI Not Interested in Catching Scammers

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

We get about 1 scammer a month signing up on Free-Rentals.com. At least, we know of at least 1 per month. This person, or people, sign up only in Manhattan NYC USA. And they have scammed several vacation rental seekers in the past using other vacation rental websites.
 We are happy to announce here at free-rentals.com, that […]