Your main objective when listing a vacation rental property is to minimize your costs. That means you should not be looking for sites that charge you to list your vacation rental property for rent. You want to generate revenue – not another expense. Maximizing your exposure while minimizing your costs is what our website is all about! So to get started on your listing there is a few things that you should do before publishing your listing to the general public.
Pictures
A picture is worth 1,000 words right? You will never rent out your vacation property if there are no pictures. People are very visual and they need to see what they are spending their money on before they commit to a rental. Pictures will sell your property because potential renters are given a sneak preview in a sense. Take pictures of every area of your home. If your vacation rental has good views of the beach, mountain, lake, etc. take a picture of it and bring renters into your life style. Let them see what it’s like to rent your property before committing.
Ad Content
It’s time to put on your sales cap and get to work! Your ad content is a big part of getting your vacation property rented out. Take a look around at your competition to see what kind of expectations you need to exceed. Then create your own content that is better than the competitions. A good sales pitch will capture your audience’s attention and your competition will need to go back to the drawing board.
When writing the content do not lie! There is nothing worse than renting out a property that is not as described. It will hurt you in the long run and will deter future renters from choosing your property over the competition.
Describe everything as accurately as possible and use words that are pleasing to hear or read in this case. Use some varying types of font enhancers like bold and italics. Things that will catch your readers eye immediately.
Pricing
Research your market. It’s pretty simple to do. You can either look online for vacation rentals near you or look in your local paper to see the prices that people are getting. You can even call other vacation rental owners in the area and pretend to be a potential renter so you can find out their pricing. It’s important to not be too high and definitely not too low either. Price your rental comparatively to your competition.
I have been informed that if I rent my property I will be reclassified to rental/commercial for tax purposes and also that I must get a real estate lic. if I advertise I have property in Al have you ran across this thanks Bill
In all honesty I am not familiar with the laws of your county, my recommendation is to speak with a local official and confirm with them the new tax rate if any. Also you may advertise your site without an address in the mean time just to see if its really worth doing all the investigation, but you will be advertising at your own risk. Hope that was helpful feel free to ask for help!
I was to hear back from a lady soliciting my account and have not my property is in Al my name Bill Brister