Good website options for advertising investment properties?

[Jason Bogert]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to the real estate space. I recently got engaged and my fiance's family own a few real estate properties that they are renting out (majority are condos in Columbia, SC and 1 in Florida). She mentioned they would like to have their own website where they have full control and can list all their properties available and potentially have them booked through this site to avoid fees associated with other platforms such as airbnb. Obviously the exposure on this site won't be as great but we can list it as a link to friends and family to book through maybe. I'm wondering if others have gone this route and what their experience has been with doing things this way vs traditional booking sites? Also what platform(s) are you using to create and host your website (wix, wordpress, squarespace, etc)?

[Andrew Camarda]

Unless you are good with SEO I'd recommend just paying the fees on air bnb. Your personal website will get lost in a sea of a million other websites if not SEO optimized. The time spent trying to generate attention to your site would probably be worth just spending the money to air bnb to avoid the headache but that's just my two cents.