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Vacation Rental Management

Information and Advice on Managing Short-Term Rentals

  • Discover how to build guest loyalty and drive more bookings with these 5 proven vacation rental tips. Learn how reviews, personal touches, and follow-ups can turn guests into repeat visitors.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 6/6/2025

    5 Tips to Retain Repeat Guests and Attract New Ones

    Want more repeat bookings and glowing reviews? Great guest experiences don’t happen by chance—they’re built through thoughtful communication, personal touches, and timely follow-ups. Learn 5 simple strategies to keep guests coming back and attract new ones through word-of-mouth and online credibility.

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  • Get the latest insights on the Cape & Islands vacation rental market for Summer 2025. Learn about booking trends, pricing, occupancy, and how demand is shaping the season for homeowners and renters alike.

    By Joan Talmadge | 6/3/2025

    2025 Vacation Rental Market Update

    The latest insights on the Cape & Islands vacation rental market for Summer 2025. Learn about booking trends, pricing, occupancy, and how demand is shaping the season for homeowners and renters alike.

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  • These simple guidelines to managing your vacation rental will result in your receiving the glowing reviews that bring future successful bookings.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 5/30/2025

    Top 10 Tips to Get Positive Guest Reviews (and Prevent Negative Ones)

    These simple guidelines to managing your vacation rental will result in your receiving the glowing reviews that bring future successful bookings.

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  • Use our Events Calendar to inform your guests about all the fun things to do while they’re at your home.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 5/30/2025

    Share Our Events Calendar with your Guests

    Use our Events Calendar to inform your guests about all the fun things to do while they’re at your home.

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  • Here's how you can convert tire kickers into bookings and, if not, at least get some indication why?

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 5/29/2025

    Tips to convert last-minute inquiries to bookings

    Here's how you can convert tire kickers into bookings and, if not, at least get some indication why?

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  • The happiness of the vacationer’s experience is vital to the homeowner’s success. It is often those “little extras” (supplies) that can make a world of difference

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 4/29/2025

    Essential Household Supplies for Vacation Rental Guests: A Complete Guide

    The happiness of the vacationer’s experience is vital to the homeowner’s success. It is often those “little extras” (supplies) that can make a world of difference

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  • It's veryimportant to email your guests just prior to their arrival with directions to your home, reminders of what to bring, your contact info, etc.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 4/28/2025

    Preventing Vacation Rental Frustrations: A Pre-Arrival Checklist

    It's very important to email your guests just prior to their arrival with directions to your home, reminders of what to bring, your contact info, etc.

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  • Nothing sets the tone for a positive vacation experience like a warm note or letter waiting for your guests. Your note could welcome them into your home and express your wishes for a relaxing vacation.

    By Joan Talmadge | Updated 4/28/2025

    Welcoming Your Guests

    Nothing sets the tone for a positive vacation experience like a warm note or letter waiting for your guests. Your note could welcome them into your home and express your wishes for a relaxing vacation.

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  • A small investment in a simple welcome gift can reap large returns and could bring vacationers back year after year. Here are a few ideas of what to get.

    By | Updated 4/24/2025

    Welcoming Your Guests with Gifts

    A small investment in a simple welcome gift can reap large returns and could bring vacationers back year after year. Here are a few ideas of what to get.

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  • Whether your vacation rental home has been closed up for the winter or open year-round, a thorough spring cleaning before the season begins is essential.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 4/1/2025

    Tips for a Thorough Spring Cleaning

    Whether your vacation rental home has been closed up for the winter or open year-round, a thorough spring cleaning before the season begins is essential.

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  • Maximize Your Vacation Rental Appeal: Essential Upgrades for a Profitable Season

    By | Updated 3/31/2025

    15 Tips for Improving Your Home's Curb Appeal

    Maximize Your Vacation Rental Appeal: Essential Upgrades for a Profitable Season

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  • Your guests are arriving soon, are you ready to welcome them? Here are some preparations to make!

    By Becky Fischer | Updated 3/19/2025

    Tips for preparing your vacation rental for the season

    Is your home ready to welcome guests? Take a look around. Do a few area rugs or decorative pillows look a little tired? Could your walls or woodwork use a fresh coat of paint? Have you scheduled your cleaning service to do a deep clean?

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  • Booking Management allows vacation rental owners to efficiently track all essential guest details.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 2/10/2025

    Managing Your Bookings with Ease!

    Homeowners swear by our Booking Management System—and you should too!

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  • Minut's device allows you to monitor the temperature/humidity/sound level/motion in your vacation rental home when you're not there.

    By Carrie Hillman | Updated 2/7/2025

    Do you have a Minut?

    Minut's device allows you to monitor the temperature/humidity/sound level/motion in your vacation rental home when you're not there.

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  • Knowing today's Cape and Islands vacationer is vital to marketing to them and providing them the best possible experience in your short-term rental home.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 1/31/2025

    Who Is Today's Vacationer?

    Knowing today's Cape and Islands vacationer is vital to marketing to them and providing them the best possible experience in your short-term rental home.

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  • As the popularity of security cameras and other smart technology in the home grows, so does the need to know what's acceptable and what's not for vacation rentals.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 1/27/2025

    Security Cameras: What you need to know

    As the popularity of security cameras and other smart technology in the home grows, so does the need to know what's acceptable and what's not for vacation rentals.

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  • A checklist of our 10 most important recommendations for preparing your vacation rental for the upcoming season including compliance with the new Lodging Tax.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 1/27/2025

    Vacation Rental Checklist for Homeowners

    A checklist of our 10 most important recommendations for preparing your vacation rental for the upcoming season including compliance with the new Lodging Tax.

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  • Looking to jumpstart your vacation rental booking season? Reach for the low hanging fruit.

    By Joan Talmadge | Updated 1/3/2025

    Contacting Prior Vacation Rental Guests

    Looking to jumpstart your vacation rental booking season? Reach for the low hanging fruit.

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  • How to find tenants who enjoy your vacation rental home, are respectful of it, leave it in good condition, and will want to return.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 1/2/2025

    Wanted – The Ideal Vacation Rental Tenant

    How to find tenants who enjoy your vacation rental home, are respectful of it, leave it in good condition, and will want to return.

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  • A few more ways you can do a little online research on anyone who inquires about your vacation home.

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 12/31/2024

    Screening Tenants III

    A few more ways you can do a little online research on anyone who inquires about your vacation home.

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  • What are your legal rights regarding who stays in, or even visits, your home? How do you say no? What can you do as a homeowner to legally protect your home from irresponsible parties?

    By Elizabeth Weedon | Updated 12/31/2024

    Screening Vacation Rental Tenants II

    What are your legal rights regarding who stays in, or even visits, your home? How do you say no? What can you do as a homeowner to legally protect your home from irresponsible parties?

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  • The vacation rental guest experience is paramount, as the host there are several best practices when considering linens.

    By Sarah DaSilva | 12/17/2024

    How to Manage Linens in a Vacation Rental

    The vacation rental guest experience is paramount, as the host there are several best practices when considering linens.

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  • Here are five simple “green” getaway home tips you can start putting to work today.

    By | Updated 12/18/2024

    5 Tips for a Greener Getaway Home

    Here are five simple “green” getaway home tips you can start putting to work today.

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  • Vacationer inquiries are like gold, don't squander them! Here is how you can convert them into bookings.

    By Joan Talmadge | Updated 12/18/2024

    Successfully Converting Inquiries to Bookings

    Vacationer inquiries are like gold, don't squander them! Here is how you can convert them into bookings.

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  • It’s time to reach out to guests who have stayed with you previously. Let them know you’re already starting to book up and mention any updates you may have made. You might even offer them a slight discount if you wish.

    By Joan Talmadge | Updated 12/18/2024

    It's Time to Reach Out to Your Guests

    It’s time to reach out to guests who have stayed with you previously. Let them know you’re already starting to book up and mention any updates you may have made. You might even offer them a slight discount if you wish.

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