0 Shares VRS202 – Survival of the Fittest With Steve Milo 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 […]
0 Shares VRS172 – 10 Reasons I Will Not Be Inquiring About Your Vacation Rental Property Do you ever wonder if your listing is attracting people to inquire about your property? Perhaps you see the stats that show how many have looked at it…but you didn’t get the inquiries or bookings that would make that number seem realistic. Could it be something in your listing that is moving them onto the […]
0 Shares 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 […]
0 Shares 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 […]
0 Shares 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 […]
0 Shares VRS071 – Airbnb Management Services with Guesty co-founder Amiad Soto It only seems a short while ago that Airbnb was seen as a platform for home owners who wanted to make a few dollars renting out a room in their place to a short-term tenant. In fact when I listen to the episodes of VRS with Jasper Ribbers of Get Paid for Your Pad and […]
0 Shares VRS068 – 2.5 Million Rentals in 100,000 destinations with Jen O’Neal, CEO of Tripping.com I know first-hand the frustration a vacationer experiences trying to book a vacation home – it can take days – and it was a question my guest on this episode posed to me. I’m usually the one asking the questions but Jen O’Neal, the founder of Tripping used my response to explain why she launched […]
0 Shares 5 Waterfront Markets for Profitable Vacation Rentals Vacation homes provide owners with the opportunity to lease part-time, unlike traditional rental property investments requiring year-long commitments. Short-term rentals, depending on locale, are generally profitable and convenient. Owners have the option to claim dates for their personal use while charging premiums during peak holidays. Vacation home investors might consider purchasing waterfront properties, but […]
0 Shares VRS049 – How One Sentence Ignited a Firestorm and Other Highlights from the VRMA Conference 2014 Just a few years after a ‘Save the VRMA’ campaign was launched and membership had slumped, this year’s VRMA Conference hit a record with over 1000 attendees, and it was great to be there and be immersed in the industry for 3 days. It’s not inexpensive to attend a conference. Flights, hotel room, meals and […]
0 Shares VRS043 – A Melting Pot of Complexity – Reinventing the Vacation Rental Industry with Richard Vaughton My guest in this episode is a microbiologist turned vacation rental guru, or maybe just an everyday genius who made a career change that is benefiting hundreds of owners and agencies worldwide. If you are a regular on the vacation rental LinkedIn groups you will have come across Richard Vaughton, who shares insightful views and […]
