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Allowing Pets In Your Vacation Rental: Yes or No?
Whether you should allow pets in your vacation rental or not really is just a matter of preference. The big listing sites are telling us that
Advanced STR Automation
In the last post I went over the basic home automation that I think every STR should have. Here I'll list the more advanced equipment we have installed. It's not really more advanced, more complex may be a better way to describe it. Tying all the devices together...
Automating Your STR
Since we were both in IT in a prior life, we love tinkering in technology and home automation was an fun topic for us to focus on. Home automation has really taken off in the last few years, with huge benefits to us short term rental owners. Adding even the most basic...
The STR Things List
If you've ever setup a vacation rental from scratch, you know how much frustration, time and effort it takes to find everything you need. Not to mention the stress that comes with thinking you may have forgotten something! Stress no more! You have come to the right...
Best Airbnb Sheets and Towels: Linen Tips
Having the best Airbnb sheets and towels has a huge affect on your guests’ perception. Poor quality, or even worse dirty or stained linens, can very easily steer the guests’ perception towards the negative.
Using VRBO Market Maker To Increase Bookings
First let me say I was never really a fan of market maker. I tried it a few times but I guess I never really got the jist of it. I also noticed that the pricing tool found in market maker was always out of wack.
So for years I never really paid attention to market maker… until our VRBO account manager used market maker to show us how to read the VRBO tea leaves so to speak.
How To Book Your Orphaned Nights
Would you like to know how to book your orphaned nights? Great! We’ll go over it in this post, but first let’s go over what an orphaned night is. There are a couple of other terms used for them.
We call them orphaned nights, but I’ve also seen them called orphaned days, gap days, unbookable days, orphan gaps, small gap days and booking gaps.
Setting Up Beyond Pricing
We’ve been using Beyond Pricing for about a year and a half and it has been a game changer for us. Before going to Beyond Pricing we also looked at Wheelhouse and Pricinglabs.
All of the pricing tools basically do the same thing, but for different platforms. At the time we were looking at pricing tools, Beyond Pricing was the only option for our scenario and it has been fantastic!
5 Ways To Increase Short Term Rental Income Today
I doubt there is a vacation rental owner anywhere that wouldn’t like to increase their income.
The funny thing is we all want to increase our income but we often aren’t willing to make the changes needed to increase it.
We somehow expect the income to increase without changing a thing.
Unfortunately, that’s not usually how it works. If you want to increase your income, the quickest way to do it is to change something for the better.
The Right Way To Sync Short Term Rental Calendars
If your vacation rental property is only listed on one OTA then syncing calendars isn’t a problem for you… yet.
Eventually, you’ll probably want to list your property on more OTAs. After all, the more fishing lines you have in the water, the more chances you have of catching a fish. 🙂
Hi! We’re Steve and Sandy, welcome to our Vacation Rental Blog! We’ve been doing vacation rentals for years and wanted to share what we’ve learned with other Vacation Rental hosts, new and old.
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