Archive for June, 2009

How To Market Your Vacation Rental

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

The Free-Rentals.com business model is to put the vacation rental industry back into the hands of individual vacation home owners. What that means to the average vacation home owner is this… Free-Rentals.com offers you tools and services to actively market and promote your vacation rental.
In contrast, the big stalwart companies that currently control the Vacation Rental […]

Long Term Renters Beware Of Fake Landlords

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Even long term renters have to be aware that the landlord who rents you a place may not actually be the landlord. With the amount of vacant and foreclosed homes in todays market, at least one scumbag tried taking advantage of it by posting as a landlord and renting out units to unsuspected renters.
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HomeExchanger Boycotts VRBO

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The blogger HomeExchanger has announced a full boycott on VRBO and is trying to round the troups. Her first grip is that websites such as VRBO that allow people “to list a swap home for rent introduces commercialism into the equation. It also puts a price tag on individual homes which further erodes home exchange’s […]

Bing Travel Search Rocks

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Microsofts new search engine Bing looks promising. Not sure if I’m ready to move from Google to it, but will continue to give it a shot.
 
On the other hand, their travel search engine Bing Travel rocks. I’ll certainly be using it first and foremost for all my flight needs. Other websites I will continue to […]