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Itโ€™s Time to Ask More from VR Revenue Management Tools

When it comes to managing your portfolio of vacation rentals, no one knows your strategy better than you do. Working in conjunction with your...

Itโ€™s All About Experiences

Vacations, at their essence, are experiences. Your guests come to you in search of fun and excitement. When they return home, what they will...

OTAs Are Not the Problemโ€”Dependency Is

One of the more popular sports in the vacation rental industry today seems to be bashing listing sites and OTAs (online travel agencies). The...

Top-Down Leadership Insights for Vacation Rental Managers

  Senior Leadership: The Difference between Well Managed and Well Led It makes sense that part of the reason weโ€™re seeing so much interest in our...

One Size Doesnโ€™t Fit Allย in Vacation Rental Owner Acquisition

Great homeowners are the foundation of every vacation rental management business, and each year, attracting themย becomes more of a challenge. As OTAs increasingly offerย manyย benefits...

7 Trainer Tipsย onย Using Technologyย for Authentic Guest Engagementย 

When vacation rentalย (VR)ย managers walk down the aisles of industry trade shows,ย such as VRM Intel Live!ย orย VRMAโ€™sย annual and regional conferences,ย they are sure toย encounter vendor partners offering...

VRHP Joins with VRM Intel for Fall Education in Gatlinburg, November 6-8

The Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals Annual Conference and VRM Intel Live! are joining together in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, November 6-8, to host a special vacation...
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Meredith Lodging Acquires Oregon Shores Vacation Rentals

Meredith Lodging LLC, based in Lincoln City, Oregon, announced today that it has acquired Oregon Shores Vacation Rentals. This is Meredith Lodging's fifth vacation...

Breezeway and FlipKey founder Jeremiah Gall: “How well do you know your properties?”ย 

Consumed by users on unlimited plans, analyzed by scientists, leveraged by marketing teams, and the basis of informed management decisions from the largest hotel...

Early Registration is now open for VRM Intel Live! in Gatlinburg, TN!!

VRM Intel Live! & VRHP Annual Conference - Combined! 4 Educational Tracks - 32 Sessions Plus.. The Rebuilding of a Destination, One Year After the Fire:...

Former Wyndham Vacation Rentals President Bob Milne Joins Vacasa as COO

With 1,400 employees, Vacasa has been making headlines as the fastest-growing full-service property management company in the vacation rental industry. Currently the second-largest vacation...

VRM Housekeeping Basics: Taylor-Madeโ€™s Joe Refosco Addresses Common Questions and Concernsย 

โ€œCleanliness is next to Godlinessโ€ is not just an old adage to be taken lightly. You get only one chance to make a good...

Follow the Wall: Vacation Rental Housekeeping Tips

One of the foundational pieces of an outstanding housekeeping routine is the discipline toย follow the wall. When I learned this principle it was a...

A Newcomerโ€™s Top Takeaways from VRM Intel Live Portland

On a recent June afternoon, I attended my first VRM Intel Live conference. The location couldnโ€™t have been more bucolic: the McMenaminโ€™s Edgefield, a...
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Certification and Accreditation: The Opportunity for Guest Assurance

The Internet reset the Vacation Rental (VR) marketโ€™s product life cycle as it took what was once a simple cottage ย industry and exploded it...

โ€œItโ€™s the Relationship, Stupidโ€

With election season finally over, TV commercials have returned to advertising things like beer, drugs, and cars, but I still canโ€™t seem to get...

Great Expectations Require Efficient Operations

Vacation rental management is a complicated business. Managers need to excel across a wide range of skills and initiatives: hospitality provider, social marketer, asset...

The Seven Habits of Super Successful Salespeopleย 

I love vacation rentals. I love that we deliver twice the living space for half the price of hotels. I love being part of...

Mother-Daughter Teams in the Vacation Rental Industry Who are Leading the Way

In honor of Motherโ€™s Day, we reached out to three vacation rental management companies owned and operated by mother-daughter teams who are helping to...

Under the Hood: Seaside Vacation Rentals in York, Maine

Founded in York, Maine in 1983, Maureen Regan and her daughter Jennifer Thibodeau areย leading the way with high quality service for homeowners, guests, and...

Under the Hood: Sand ‘N Sea, Galveston, Texas

Sand 'N Sea, based in Galveston, TX, was founded in 1974 by Bert Feinman and is now operated by her two daughters, Anne and...
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Mammoth Resorts acquired by Aspen Skiing Co.-KSL Capital Alliance

Deal gives new Aspen Skiing Co.-KSL Capital Partners alliance more than 6,000 acres of southern California ski terrain andย challenges Vail Resortsโ€™ dominance in season...

TowneBank acquires Railey Mountain Lakes Vacations

Virginia-based TowneBank has acquired Railey Mountain Lake Vacationsย in McHenry, Maryland. Railey Mountain Lake Vacations manages 280 vacation homes and 2 hotels in the Deep...

Vacation Home Sales Drop in 2016, Down 21.6% from 2015

Last year's strongest pace of home sales in a decade included a sizeable drop in activity from vacation buyers and a jump from individual...

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