I am happy with
VacationHomeRentals performance, during the trial I had many
hits,
12 enquries and obtained one booking. Of the other 11
enquiries
I was
already booked or had not updated my calendar for the
booking
secured earlier in the day. One in 12 is a good ratio
for me, so I
definitely signed up for a year's listing.
I
have other sites that are claiming 300 hits a month and
in 2 years
have
only had 14 enquiries and 1 booking. Definitely will not
be
renewing that site as I have transfer their budget to
VacationHomeRentals. |
I am new to the biz
(July). I have been using VacationHomeRentals since around 7/8/05:
1015
visits to my page
46
visits to my web site from my link
152
views of the availability calendar (they have their own
that I have to
update outside of Rentors.org)
25
e-mails/inquiries
0
bookings.
VacationHomeRentals were pretty easy to
set up, and I like my page.
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I have completed my trial
listing with VacationHomeRentals and know it expired because
I
have received 2 inquires in the last 2 days with the
pertinent
information blanked out until I paid for the listing. I
have had 26
inquiries from them, which is nice, but NO bookings!
Several(hadn't
checked how many) were last minute and I stay booked
fairly well in
advance! |
| I have my property
listed on a few different vacation rental sites.
VacationHomeRentals has not brought me any rentals as of
this time. |
| We are very pleased
with the response we get from VacationHomeRentals and we also
have another home on it (#1031)on the OR coast. |
I have a Maui condo posted on VacationHomeRentals
and I recd
65 inquires last year. I booked several reservations
from these inquiries, so I have elected to renew for
another year.
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| I have a 2nd (expired) free trial with
VacationHomeRentals. The
first time, when they used another name (I forget what
it was), I got a few inquiries and no bookings. This
time, I have gotten 2 inquiries (1 of which was a very
off-season inquiry 2 days after my trial expired ) |
As well as I like the VacationHomeRentals setup, I
will not be signing up with them. I took advantage of
the free trial, and while I did receive inquiries from
the site, no bookings. I do not approve of one of their
ways of recruiting paid Vacation Rentals. After my
listing expired and I asked to be removed, my listing
still remained. I would receive inquiries with the info
blocked off and VacationHomeRentals requesting payment
to view the complete inquiry. I think this is poor
service for the renter. When you inquire about a
property you expect a response. I don't want my
perspective guests treated this way. Luckily one of the
two inquiries recently received from them, inquired
through another site as well. So I was able to respond
to him and not leave him hanging. (Dana Point,California)
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I signed both my cottages up on
VacationHomeRentals before the trial
listing for the first had expired this spring. I have
received 3 weeks of summer rentals and a three night
fill the gap rental from them. Several more inquiries,
one scam. (Washington State)
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I signed up for the VacationHomeRentals free
trial yesterday (June 28) and we got our first inquiry
last night. Now that is what I call results!
I'm relatively new to this (renting by owner), but I've
done a lot of research into the various listing sites.
All of them have both good and bad reviews. All of them
work well for some but not others. All I can say is you
have to try them yourself and see what works best for
you. (Colonial Beach, VA)
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VacationHomeRentals site has not worked out
very well for us. We found out about them here on COHR
and so gave them a try. We did the free trial listing
which basically yielded nothing. Not entirely their
fault as we have a very popular property with a fairly
full calendar. Therefore, the few inquiries that we did
receive were in conflict with existing bookings. The big
problem that we now face is that since our trial has
expired, we are now getting inquiries that we cannot
answer (return email hidden) unless we prepay for a
year. Apparently, VacationHomeRentals are leaving
our listing out there even though it has expired. They
have limited our access such that we cannot delete or
edit our listing or account in any way. We have emailed
them twice to remove us from their site but they have
not done so nor do they respond ! Obviously, this can
only make us look bad. Please help us escape !!!!! (Kihei,
Hawaii)
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Vacation Home Rentals is one of my top
producers for North Carolina. Definitely worthwhile.
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Do yourself a favor, try their 60 day free trial. I
did and vacation home rentals has by far gotten me the
most rentals. I can only rent by the month so it's a
little tricky. My regular tenants were getting too old
to travel. I started last June with no summer rentals
and within a week on the free trial I had one. All be it
at a very competitive rate but I got a monthly rental in
July. Within the month I had another rental for
September. And before the 60 days were up I had rented
out up to my high season regulars. I got a June 2010 off
season rental here in December of 2009. Works for me!
Their site works well too. The photos show well and with
their captions and in the right order. Not like some
other paid sites. I have found that their notion that
they may have a fewer views but fewer listings per
location so more exposure for your listing than the
really big sites seems correct. I got one of those too
.. three times the money for just one monthly rental. I
i could rent weekly I could clean up with just this
site.
They do produce superior results. Try it free
for 60 days. |
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