HomeAway, the leading Vacation Rental services rollup has recently hired two key silicon valley executives and may be vying a 2011 IPO. The company was valued at $1.4 Billion USD just a year and a half ago with revenues of $150 Million. Current revenus is now around $200m a year with some estimated $70m a year […]
Folks, forgive me for being abrasive, but…… WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE????????
Vacation Rental Listing website FlipKey.com just raised their yearly listing rates by 1000%! Imagine if you joined them, and added your property, uploaded picture after picture, adding captions, adding features, amenities, facilities, description etc.. and then in less than 1 year, they send you an […]
The number one free vacation rental website keeps getting bigger. Free-Rentals.com just crossed the 300k mark in terms of Alexa traffic rank, making it the largest free vacation rental website online. Thank you to everyone for your participation, it’s only with the help of vacation rental home owners that we can take this industry back and […]
We are pleased to announce that free-rentals.com now has 7000 Vacation Rental listings worldwide. Free-Rentals.com is now the largest vacation rental directory website offering owners a 100% free to advertise opportunity.
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 […]
This summer is shaping up to offer some of the most spectacular vacation rental discounts and deals ever seen since the industry boomed with 16 years ago with the advent of the internet.
According to the New York Times, here are excerpts in store for this summer’s vacation rental industry:
Part of the reason is that potential […]
Free-Rentals.com experiences a spike in traffic thanks to the recent donations from several members. Their money has been used in advertising and promoting the website, which has driven a lot of traffic to all vacation rental listings.
Free-Rentals.com demonstrates that democracy on the web does indeed work, and that a smart pooling of resources helps everyone involved.
The blog Orlando Vacation News has just posted 3 main points that vacation rentals offer over hotels. They are in a nutshell:
Room for everyone without the added cost. Ranging from 2 bedroom condos to 7 bedroom homes that sleep from 4 to 16 people comfortably.
Fully equipped kitchens that present tremendous savings versus dining out. With […]
New start up ShopCabins.com allows you to find a cabin to rent. But for whatever reason, they also list condos and hotels. At time of this post, they have 63 cabin listings.
According to a National Association of Realtors’ 2008 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey released March 30, 2009, the economy has more second home owners than ever before deciding to rent their homes to vacationers. Seems like it may be a better time to rent.
While the NAR reports a sharp decline in total second home […]