yes, ER is a pro.
Thanks, ER, i’m busy implementing all your useful tips.
One reason I’m doing this is because I have friends who rent on VRBO all the time to travel with their families. They love it and prefer it to hotels. They rent very nice houses and apartments all over the world. It’s a chance to be “local” and experience what the world has to offer.
You’re certainly welcome. I hope you find some of the information useful. I wish this kind if stuff was available when I was getting started but I just learned by trial and error.
Absolutely I practice what I preach. My family and I have been traveling around the world over 100 days each year for the past several years and we almost always rent a property or do home exchanges vs. staying in hotels.
Much better value for the money and also with young kids it makes life much easier. It’s also great “living like a local”.
Also I forgot to mention that Homeaway.com and VRBO.com have packages you can combine. It saves money getting the bundled package if you want to list on both. I just renewed today on several of my properties. The Platinum package is $1300 to list on both. And a good tip is to call them when signing up and ask for 13 or 14 months for the price of 12. They usually will do that if you ask.
Also AirBnB.com has gotten very smart. They will actually send out a professional photographer on their dime to publish photos on their website so definitely worth taking advantage of.
