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.
Free-Rentals.com just broke 2 major trendlines today. For the first time, Free-Rentals.com dropped below the 400k mark… meaning, it’s roughly the 400 thousandth most popular website on the internet.
And secondly, Free-Rentals.com has doubled the amount of time each visitor spends on time reviewing vacation rental listings while tripling the number of inquiries sent to vacation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
Hotpads began by focusing on long term real estate rental heat maps, allowing you to view real estate listings primarily through a map front end interface. It then added a “Buy vs. Rent” search feature allowing users to search homes either for sale or rent while comparing their monthly costs.
Their latest addition is to offer vacation rentals across the […]