Do you know where you should list your vacation rental property? Like what site
should you put it on? It should it be on every web site or just one website. We're
going to talk about that there's a lot of choices. Some of them are super confusing.
But I'm going to clear it all up for you. Let's go.
In this video, I'm going to cover exactly where you should be listing your
vacation rental property, how you should be listing that vacation rental property
and giving you some great tips and some things that you really need to avoid.
I've made some crazy mistakes. And I'm going to make sure you don't make those
same mistakes when you are deciding where to list your vacation rental
property. Because you can. Listing your property on the wrong websites on not
enough websites could literally ruin your business. So, there's 4 major
places that you want to make sure that your rental property is listed for sure.
And I'm going to go through each one of them. But the first one is so obvious but
most people just miss it like crazy. So, number one, it should be on your own
website. Yeah. Crazy. Your own website. So, yeah. If you have vacation rental
properties and you have a listing or 2, of course you can lose some of the
websites that are out there. I will go into some detail. But the number 1
place that your rental property should be is one your website. You should have
your own company website that lists the properties that you have so that you can
get direct bookings, okay? Now, what are direct bookings? That's someone booking
directly with you and paying you directly to stay at your property. Seems
like a pretty easy thing to do but most people really miss this. And they depend
on other websites to advertise their property and they never have their own
website where their property is listed. And I'm going to tell you, this could
literally ruin your business. Because if you for example list your property on
all of these websites in say for example, one of those websites closes down, like
MySpace. You know, what if you had all your stuff there? It could happen. So, you
want to make sure that your property is on your own website so that if you meet
someone or if you're talking to someone, you can direct them right to your
property and they could book directly with you and you can get all of the
money without anyone taking any fees. The number 2, must-have website that you
must list your property on is home away/ Vacation Rental by Owner. So,
vacation rental by owner and Home Away actually used to be two separate sites a
few years ago. But leave its home away that bought Vacation
Rental By Owner. So V-R-B-O. And this is an awesome website that reaches millions of
people, okay? And this is actually one of the first websites that started offering
full properties that you can rent. I remember probably 10, 20 years ago. It was
just home away. Me and my family every single year, we would go to Disneyworld
or I shouldn't say Disneyworld, we would go to Orlando and we would go to one of
the parks. Maybe it was Disneyworld. Sometimes it was Universal Studios or
SeaWorld or whatever the major attractions were around in Orlando. And
we always rented a house as I've mentioned to you guys before, I got 5
kids. Before I have 5, I had 3. The last 2 are twins. So, we always have
multiple children. And a hotel room was never comfortable for the 5 of us. So,
we've been renting homes for quite a long time before Airbnb and some of
these other sites started coming along. And the big player was Home Away and
Vacation Rental By Owner. And they have tons of properties and we always got
great customer service. They are very attentive, they have 24/7 concierge where
you have someone to talk to. And they will help you if you have a problem
listing your property and they would help your guests if they have any issues
whatsoever. They're a great site many years in Home Away/Vacation Rental
By Owner is one of the longest-running websites for vacation rentals. So, it is a
must. Number 3, booking.com. Yeah, you didn't
probably know that you can list your property on booking.com, did you? Okay,
well you can. Because guess what? Before you couldn't, this is actually something
new that they're doing. I think it's only within the last year or 2 that they've
opened it up where normal people can just list their properties on their
website. And so, they are trying to compete against some of these bigger
websites like I mentioned, Home Away for example. Booking.com is making a real run.
And they are getting millions of visitors each month to their website.
They have a lot of traffic and they have some pretty low fees when it comes to
listing your property. So, when you're going and you're listing your vacation
rental property, make sure you include booking.com. And last but not least, I
would be remiss if I did not tell you that your vacation rental property
should be on the number one home sharing platform on the Internet --Airbnb, okay?
Airbnb has become synonymous with short term rental. Has become synonymous with
vacation rental. Most people just say, "I'm going to get an Airbnb." That is like the new
thing. They have the most visitors of any of these short term vacation sites. And
it is the fastest growing company, okay? It is one of the fastest growing companies
in the entire world. So, Airbnb is really making a mark. They're advertising more.
They've upped their perks. They've lowered their fees. They've added more
customer support and they're doing a lot of things to encourage people to be
entrepreneurs on their website and have multiple properties listed on their
website. And they're even providing some really cool tools to help you manage
your business. So, Airbnb. So, now you have it where to list your vacation rental
properties. I've given you the top 4 places that it needs to be listed for
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