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Managing Short-Term Rentals

Marketing Trends and Management Advice for Short-Term Rentals

  • At first glance, vacation rental damage insurance can seem like a great prospect to a homeowner. But is it all that it's cracked up to be? And can it effectually replace the psychological impact of a security deposit?

    Vacation Rental Damage Insurance vs Security Deposits

    At first glance, vacation rental damage insurance can seem like a great prospect to a homeowner. But is it all that it's cracked up to be? And can it effectually replace the psychological impact of a security deposit?

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  • Insights and tips from WeNeedaVacation.com's professional photographer, Becky Fischer, on finding and capturing the hidden gems in your vacation rental.

    Vacation Rental Photography - Making it personal

    Insights and tips from WeNeedaVacation.com's professional photographer, Becky Fischer, on finding and capturing the hidden gems in your vacation rental.

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  • Vacation waste mentality drives up the cost of renting a vacation home and puts a strain on the local environment, not to mention a homeowner's pockets. Here's how to curb this mentality without impinging on a renter's stay.

    Curbing Vacation Waste Mentality

    Vacation waste mentality drives up the cost of renting a vacation home and puts a strain on the local environment, not to mention a homeowner's pockets. Here's how to curb this mentality without impinging on a renter's stay.

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  • Marketing tips to help vacation rental homeowners fully implement the bevy of impactful techniques that a niche listing site can help employ.

    Mastering your Niche: How to Get the Most Value from Niche Marketing

    Marketing tips to help vacation rental homeowners fully implement the bevy of impactful techniques that a niche listing site can help employ.

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  • The future of vacation rental marketing lies in niche marketing. Niche vacation rental sites are able to offer key advantages to vacationers, which, in turn, benefit rental homeowners.

    The Future of Vacation Rental Marketing: It's All about the Niche

    The future of vacation rental marketing lies in niche marketing. Niche vacation rental sites are able to offer key advantages to vacationers, which, in turn, benefit rental homeowners.

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  • Best wishes in 2014 for health, happiness, and Cape and Islands sand in your shoes! Watch a video all about this special place we love.

    Happy New Year from WeNeedaVacation.com

    Best wishes in 2014 for health, happiness, and Cape and Islands sand in your shoes! Watch a video all about this special place we love.

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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?

    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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  • It takes past guests just a moment to do, and the resulting vacationer entered review is of much greater value to you.

    Help your tenants to help you! Convert a homeowner entered review to a vacationer entered one

    It takes past guests just a moment to do, and the resulting vacationer entered review is of much greater value to you.

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  • Joan and Jeff Talmadge, Co-Owners of WeNeedaVacation.com, are so accustomed to being on the homeowner side of vacation rentals, so it's always interesting for them to play the vacationer role. Not surprisingly, one of their biggest concerns is about trust.

    Vacation Rental Trust Works Both Ways

    Joan and Jeff Talmadge, Co-Owners of WeNeedaVacation.com, are so accustomed to being on the homeowner side of vacation rentals, so it's always interesting for them to play the vacationer role. Not surprisingly, one of their biggest concerns is about trust.

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  • The main topic of this year's annual Homeowner Forums was about how two fairly recent developments have impacted the Cape and Islands vacation rental marketplace - that is, a demand for high-quality photos and vacationer feedback - and how we homeowners need to adapt to and embrace these changes in order to remain successful in renting our homes.

    The 2013 WeNeedaVacation.com Homeowner Forums Recap and Video

    The main topic of this year's annual Homeowner Forums was about how two fairly recent developments have impacted the Cape and Islands vacation rental marketplace - that is, a demand for high-quality photos and vacationer feedback - and how we homeowners need to adapt to and embrace these changes in order to remain successful in renting our homes.

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