Archive for March, 2009

Find Apartments and Houses for Rent

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Rentbits is a search engine focused on helping people find apartments and houses for rent, but it has released a new feature that allows users to see the average and median rental prices of properties in 4,000 cities across the United States. 
 
Rentbits has analyzed 7 million rental entries in its database, compiling historical graphs displaying the general […]

How to add photos of my vacation rental?

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Q: I am trying to upload images of my vacation rental property to Free-Rentals.com, but they do not upload, why not?
A: Here are the most likely reason why your images are failing to upload….
1) The size it too big. Please shrink images down to 900kb or smaller before trying to upload.
2) Only JPG images are […]

Free-Rentals.com makes TechCrunch

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Ms. Leena Rao has a great article about an up and newcomer to the vacation rental industry… AirBedandBreakfast.com, who recently rebranded as airbnb.com. Part of what makes the article great is that she mentions Free-Rentals.com as one of the main established competitors.
 
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/y-combinators-airbed-and-breakfast-casts-a-wider-net-for-housing-rentals-as-airbnb/
 
Air Bed and Breakfast has a great website, slick interface and originally started out […]

Objection: I will not link to a vacation rentals website that shows my competition

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Here is an objection we get often concerning why owners of individual websites that promote their vacation rental units will not link to the free-rentals.com website…. “I will not link to a site (such as Free-Rentals.com) that offers hundreds of competitors for a potential guest to view”.
First, for some background… When you sign up your […]

Objection: I will not donate to a free vacation rentals website

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Here is an object we get frequently… “I will not donate to a website that is suppose to be free”.
 
Our response is… Ok that is fine, you do not have to donate. We simply and kindly ask you to *consider* giving us a donation if and when you benefit from having your vacation rental property advertised […]