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Your potential guests are scrolling through hundreds of listings looking for their next stay. How do you stand out? After your cover photo, your Airbnb title is the next most important feature of your listing. In this post, we’ve put together best practices and some examples of the best Airbnb titles. 4 Best Practices for Read more
If you are listing on both Airbnb and VRBO, you can sync your calendars to prevent multiple guests from booking the same dates. Both Airbnb and VRBO use the same iCal calendar format, and can easily be synced with each other, and with other calendars like your Google calendar. Follow this quick 2-part process to Read more
Want to know how to market your vacation rental? We’ve put together this Vacation Rental Marketing Guide to help you make your property stand out. The vacation rental marketplace is more competitive than it’s ever been. And as the market becomes even more crowded, it’s becoming more and more important to effectively market your property. Read more
In this post we’re going over our top 5 picks for insurance companies that offer vacation rental (or short-term rental) insurance, specifically. Hosts often wrongly assume that their homeowner’s insurance policy covers their vacation rental property. But most often, this is not the case. If you’re renting out your home to temporary guests, it’s likely Read more
Listing on popular platforms like Airbnb and VRBO is a great way to get exposure and more bookings. But as a vacation rental owner, you might benefit from identifying smaller, more niche listing sites. These sites have less traffic overall, but they are also less competitive, and the traffic is more targeted and specific. If Read more
1. Take direct bookings One of the primary reasons to have a website for your vacation rental property is that you can eliminate fees charged by online booking platforms like Airbnb and VRBO. For instance, Airbnb adds a ~13% “guest fee” to your guests’ checkout price. That means 13% that’s going to Airbnb instead of Read more