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VRM Intel’s Spring Issue is Heading Your Way

  The latest issue of VRM Intel Magazine is at the printer and heading your way soon, and here is a link to the digital...

Working with Housekeeping Subcontractors for Vacation Rental Property Managers

Setting Expectations and Ensuring Subcontractors Meet Brand Standards Contracting out your cleaning can be a daunting task. An individual or company is essentially handing...

3 Building Blocks for Creating a Sustainable Business

We arrived at the Vacation Rental Women’s Summit (VRWS) with a clear goal: to give people our perspective on the right way to build...

Choosing Cleaning Products for Vacation Rentals

A housekeeper’s world is a dangerous world! There are all sorts of nasty microbes that need to be eradicated from the property as it...

Is Wyndham Destinations getting ready to spin off Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America?

Last year, as Wyndham Worldwide split into two publicly traded companies, Wyndham Hotel and Resorts (NYSE: WH) and Wyndham Destinations (NYSE: WYND), and announced that it had sold its market-leading...

The Winter 2019 VRM Intel Magazine Issue is Here

Coming to a mailbox near you, the Winter 2019 VRM Intel Magazine issue is here.   Here are some of the articles you will find in this issue: ...

The Importance of DNA in The Vacation Rental Industry

As we start the New Year our industry can expect more changes.  From this, we expect to see more fragmentation that will impact us and...
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8 Most Surprising Vacation Rental Industry Developments in 2018

2018 was a whirlwind for those of us who cover the vacation rental industry. The pace of news about funding, acquisitions, regulation changes, and...

Wyndham, TurnKey, VTrips, Vacasa Discuss HomeAway, Google, and What OTAs Can Do Better

We had the chance host a panel of executives at Phocuswright's conference in Los Angeles, with the largest vacation rental companies in the US...

The Push for Quality: How Hotel Convergence is Affecting Vacation Rentals 

A dozen years ago, before HomeAway acquired VRBO and before vacation rentals had any presence with major online travel agencies (OTAs), rental managers were...

The Theory of Limited Edition: Are your homes commodities or limited edition offerings? 

I would like to share what I feel is the most radical concept in the vacation rental industry today—the theory of limited edition—which argues that, contrary to large...

Airbnb Addresses Professional Vacation Rental Managers: “PMs are an indispensable part of Airbnb’s success.”

Airbnb wants professional property management companies to know its aim is to work more closely with the professionally managed community. Below is a message...

Is Texting the New Email for Vacation Rental Managers? Giving Great Service While Texting 

Communication via texting is rapidly increasing as we all see every day. Now when I dine out at a restaurant and I am waiting for a table,...

2nd Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day Set for February 6 — Let your guests know it pays to book direct, book smart, and book...

The Second Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, recurring on the first Wednesday in February, is set for February 6, 2019. With a multitude of...
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Florida Panhandle Still Struggling One Month After Hurricane Michael

A month after Hurricane Michael made landfall over the Florida Panhandle as one of the strongest storms to hit the US, those left in...

Annual Deep Cleaning for Each Home in Inventory Should be Mandatory

Once a year, some of us make an appointment with a doctor for a physical. This is when the doctor “lifts the hood” and makes sure the ol’ ticker...

Common Threads: How Starr Textile Services’ Ties to the Vacation Rental Industry Helped It Knit Success 

If any company can find opportunities amid challenging circumstances, it’s Starr Textile Services. In 2004, Meyer Vacation Rentals in Gulf Shores, Alabama, was quickly outgrowing the only local...

Properly Raises $8.5M for Housekeeping and Inspection Tech Platform for Airbnb Hosts

2018's third quarter already has been packed with venture capital and private equity funding news. In the latest of a series of announcements, San Francisco-based Properly,...

VRM Intel Magazine’s 2018 Fall Issue is Here

The fall issue of VRM Intel Magazine is here. In 2015, when I started this magazine, Doug Macnaught, a close friend and mentor asked me, “Do you...

Las Vegas Planning Commission Sends Short-Term Rental Ban to City Council

The Las Vegas city planning commission voted 4-3 Tuesday night to approve a ban of short-term rentals. The proposal will now head to the city...

TurnKey Adds InvitedHome Co-founders to Management Team

InvitedHome co-founders, Michael Joseph and Tom Feldhusen, left the company to join the TurnKey Vacation Rentals team. According to TJ Clark, CEO at Austin-based TurnKey, the...
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Stay Alfred Raises $47M, Bringing Total Funding to $62M

Today, Stay Alfred announced it has raised $47 million in a Series B round led by Nine Four Ventures, bringing the total funding to $62...

Skift’s Rafat Ali and Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian Discuss Alternative Accommodations

Earlier today at Skift Global Forum in New York, Skift founder Rafat Ali and Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian discussed the company's trajectory and the...

Google Product and Marketing Execs Confirm the Company is Adding Vacation Rentals

Google's Richard Holden, vice president of product management, and Rob Torres, managing director of advertising and marketing for the travel sector spoke with Sean O'Neill...

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