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How to Avoid Making Costly Mistakes When Selling Your Vacation Rental Business

With many of us experiencing a pandemic rebound, operating cash and earnings are at all-time highs.  Each of us would be lucky to “go out”...

Helping Your Guests Create Memories that Matter One Experience at a Time

A guest’s memories of a vacation can be different from their true experience and are sometimes shaped by a single event. That is why...

The Value of Asking Questions to the Guest Experience, Your Work Environment & Beyond

Questions are a critical foundation of all relationships that we experience in life. They are said to create learning or liking, and, in the...

Purpose-Built Vacation Rental Neighborhood Discovery Heights Providing Solutions for High Rental Demands

At the south end of the Long Beach peninsula lies a large basalt headland consisting of forested hilltops and magnificent capes overlooking the Pacific...

Remote Controls: The Property Manager’s Ultimate Frenemy

How can something so small be so infuriating? No, we’re not talking about mosquitos. At least you can kill those.  Remote controls are the ultimate...

Will this Ever End: Yet Another Canadian Government Shutdown Has Property Managers Feeling like Groundhog Day

Someone once told me that, to the majority of our US friends, Canada is like the attic in their homes. They know it’s up...

The Importance of SEO to Your Vacation Rental Website and Marketing Strategy

When I tell people I’m a search engine optimization (SEO) specialist, I see their eyes glaze over. I often resort to a short response...
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Taxes for Vacation Rentals: Six Ways You Can Help Cut Your Homeowner’s Taxes

Property managers get all kinds of questions from homeowner clients, and sometimes these are tax and financial questions. Homeowners may share tax-relevant information with...

Jeremy Gall Discusses Challenges & Opportunities: Where Is Vacation Rental Management Heading?

When we started Breezeway in 2016, few companies in the vacation rental ecosystem were talking about property care and operations. Managers were focused on...

VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Laik Lepera, Director of Operations at Village Realty

Three seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is continuing to...

VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Julie Byrd, Vice President of Sales at Cabo Villas

Three seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is continuing to...

VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Gail Boisclair and How She’s Survived & Thrived in the Industry

VRM Intel is diving into the lives of the careerists among us: those managers who have made it over the river and through the...

Reinventing Your Business’ Front Line for a Better Guest Experience

The excited family pulls up to their rental home for a highly anticipated week of vacation. Everyone jumps out of the vehicle, and they...

Preparing Your Company to Sell Part 2: Staff and Management Contracts

In the first article of this series in VRM Intel Magazine’s winter issue, we focused on your company’s financials as a way to prepare...
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Hand-to-Hand Combat: Winning the Battle for Direct Bookings

For years now, vacation rental companies have been fighting desperately to win back market share from third parties, such as online travel agencies (OTAs),...

Amid Unemployment Benefits & Hiring Struggles: How to Attract & Retain a Seasonal Workforce

The war for talent continues to plague businesses into summer 2021. Just one year ago in April and May, we saw unemployment rates in...

Is Influencer Marketing the Right Tactic for Your Vacation Rental Business?

Scrolling through online vacation rental marketing and management forums will quickly reveal the story of what many professional owners and property managers think of...

Industry Veteran and Rented CCO Cliff Johnson Departs Vacation Rental Industry to Join Realtor.com

Rented CCO Cliff Johnson has resigned from his role to join Realtor.com as vice president of new homes, category manager. In his new role...

Sarah and T Podcast releases its 100th episode—and it matters

The Sarah and T Podcast dropped its 100th episode today, and enterprise-level vacation rental managers are better for it. Currently in its fifth season,...

Vintory’s Director of Digital Marketing Gives a Crash Course: How to Get The Most Out of Your Digital Advertising Efforts

“We’re seeing lots of traffic, it’s not just converting.” How many times have you heard this? How many times have you said it yourself? Google Ads...

Piecing Together Technology Systems to Execute Revenue Management Strategies

In business and life in general, they say to avoid extremes. Make a solid plan, make corrective adjustments, but stay the course and “fly...
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Property Management Newcomer Casiola: How their Fresh Look at the Industry is Making them Successful

This past February, I pulled into the driveway of my Orlando vacation rental around 9:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. It’s always unsettling to...

VTrips acquires Resort Collection, among others, expanding to 3,000 properties

VTrips announced its acquisition of Resort Collection and its 800 properties on June 1, 2021. Resort Collection is one of the most well-established and...

VRM Execs and GMs: The Industry Needs Your Feedback in this 2021 Short-Term Rental Industry Survey by Phocuswright

By Pete Comeau, Managing Director, Phocuswright Short-term rentals in the US have been on a steady growth trajectory over the past decade. Since 2013, Phocuswright,...

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