Share VRS316 – How to be a ‘Fab’ short term rental host with Robert Geller Did you know that the LGBTQ market spends in excess of $200 billion dollars a year on travel? On top of that, 77% of the community have valid passports (compared to 40% of the US population as a whole) and are likely to take at least two trips a year. This is a huge market […]
Share VRS299 – Born Into The Vacation Rental Business with Jodi Taylor Refosco When you are born to parents who run a vacation rental business and your first real job is cleaning hot tubs in rentals you are likely to learn a lot about the industry from the ground up. Having that sort of experience is what prompted Jodi Taylor Refosco to launch Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & […]
Share 10 Mistakes VRBO’s Often Make – #5 Will Kill Your Business Before It Gets Started Managing a vacation rental by owner property (VRBO) can be challenging. Updated March 2019… There is so much involved in creating a profitable vacation rental business that getting it right from the start is tough — manageable but tough. It is more than learning from a few websites and hoping for the best; adopting a […]
Share VRS202 – Survival of the Fittest With Steve Milo Of Vacation Rental Pros In 2006, Steve Milo of Vacation Rental Pros had 15 properties under management and a lot of ambition to grow his company. By 2015 when I interviewed him last on VRS094, VRPs inventory had increased to just over 900. In this episode, Steve describes how that number has doubled in the past two years with […]
Share VRS196 – Vacation Rental Insurance Explained with Darren Pettyjohn Insurance may not seem the most exciting of topics but it is one that impacts every single one of us, whether it’s a single condo or multiple properties. The moment we exchange our property (or a part of it) for money, we are in business, and that brings with it all manner of risks. In […]
Share VRS190 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part Two Part 2 of the Adventures of Travelling Matt (Landau) takes us to Italy, and Matt’s journey to Rome, the Umbrian town of Guardea and Le Marche in the eastern Italian region of Ancona. Matt’s telling of the trip takes us to out of the way places and shares his experiences of visiting a renowned silversmith’s […]
Share VRS188 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part One Have you ever been a guest in a vacation rental in a location you are unfamiliar with? I’ve asked this question of many home owners to find that most have never experienced what it’s like to be a guest. And you should do this, at least once. Owners will often say they’ve stayed in their […]
Share VRS134 – Filling a Unique Niche in Vacation Rentals with Dianne Denton It’s always a pleasure to talk to owners about their properties, and even more so when they are as unique as Dianne Denton’s Sea Horse Diamond Beach Cottage. Not only is this a gorgeous property, with a swimming pool and a short walk from the beach, which would be an attraction for anyone, but it’s […]
Share VRS091 – Eric Mason From Vacation Rental Professionals Group Today’s guest is a vacation rental industry professional in the widest sense. Having honed his skills with some of the biggest names in the business, Eric Mason brings all his multi-faceted skills to the industry and is impacting it in many ways, from advising dynamic start-ups to moderating the largest LinkedIn group in the vacation […]
Share VRS081 – How Millennials Book Vacation Rentals with Matt Landau In a week where we have dealt with hundreds of requests from groups of people in their 20’s and early 30’s, looking to book larger properties from our inventory, it was timely to read Matt Landau’s latest post on the Vacation Rental Marketing blog. He has recently returned from a trip he took with 3 […]
