Specialist · Memphis, TN · Member since 2019 · 24 posts · 3 votes
I have read from different people how they advertise their vacation rental condos but I'd appreciate a list or recommendations. i know about tripadvisor, airbnb and VRBO......any others that you think are good or have had experience with. I have a gulf front beach condo in Miramar Beach Florida.
Rental Property Investor · Nashville, TN · Member since 2013 · 63 posts · 43 votes
7y
AirBnB and VRBO account for the majority of vacation rental booking in the US. TripAdvisor and Booking.com to a lesser extent. In your area, you might consider https://emeraldcoastbyowner.com - a number of hosts that I'm in touch with report good results.
I'd also recommend getting your own web site set up so you can accept direct bookings, particularly from repeat guests - we've been doing this for a few years now and our repeat bookings continue to grow year over year, and having a direct-booking option has worked well for us.
If you're not interested in setting up your own web site and booking back-end, maybe take a look at https://www.houfy.com/ set up a listing and refer your repeat guests to your Houfy listing.
Rental Property Investor · Nashville, TN · Member since 2013 · 63 posts · 43 votes
7y
AirBnB and VRBO account for the majority of vacation rental booking in the US. TripAdvisor and Booking.com to a lesser extent. In your area, you might consider https://emeraldcoastbyowner.com - a number of hosts that I'm in touch with report good results.
I'd also recommend getting your own web site set up so you can accept direct bookings, particularly from repeat guests - we've been doing this for a few years now and our repeat bookings continue to grow year over year, and having a direct-booking option has worked well for us.
If you're not interested in setting up your own web site and booking back-end, maybe take a look at https://www.houfy.com/ set up a listing and refer your repeat guests to your Houfy listing.
Investor · The worst town to live in, KS · Member since 2016 · 4k+ posts · 4k+ votes
7y
Most of my renters find me through Craigslist. Less than 1% come from a vacation rental site. But my tenants are rednecks and Spanish guys that work at refineries. Boilermakers, welders, pipefitters and the like. Guys with neck tats that you would avoid walking down the aisle of a grocery story if you saw one there.
AirBnB and VRBO account for the majority of vacation rental booking in the US. TripAdvisor and Booking.com to a lesser extent. In your area, you might consider https://emeraldcoastbyowner.com - a number of hosts that I'm in touch with report good results.
I'd also recommend getting your own web site set up so you can accept direct bookings, particularly from repeat guests - we've been doing this for a few years now and our repeat bookings continue to grow year over year, and having a direct-booking option has worked well for us.
If you're not interested in setting up your own web site and booking back-end, maybe take a look at https://www.houfy.com/ set up a listing and refer your repeat guests to your Houfy listing.
Cool idea, John. How do you make your repeat guests aware of your web site?
We let our guests know that we accept direct bookings in several ways: post-stay text and email follow-up, post cards and business cards displayed in all our properties, giving each property a unique name and promoting it on social media and elsewhere so guests can do a quick Google search on our property name and we appear everywhere.
Increasingly, we are seeing even some first-time guests seeing our property name on the big listing sites, then finding us with a Google search and booking directly on their first stay.
We let our guests know that we accept direct bookings in several ways: post-stay text and email follow-up, post cards and business cards displayed in all our properties, giving each property a unique name and promoting it on social media and elsewhere so guests can do a quick Google search on our property name and we appear everywhere.
Increasingly, we are seeing even some first-time guests seeing our property name on the big listing sites, then finding us with a Google search and booking directly on their first stay.
Specialist · Memphis, TN · Member since 2019 · 24 posts · 3 votes
7y
Thanks to all of you ...I currently use a rental company but was curious as to what of those who do their own rental and hassle with cleaning and maintenance between customer stays did.
I pay 20% and my HOA is $750/ month..making it hard to make a profit