Well, the news just keeps getting better for those of you who took the plunge and bought yourselves a second property. You can now advertise your home for vacation rentals absolutely free on a professional web site. And it’s a web site that probably everyone knows how to access!
If you want to find out more about this, then sign up for a free Google.com account and agree to the terms and conditions of the service offered by Google Base.>
Google Base offers the same service as the now-famous Craigslist, but they aspire to more professional looking web pages. With already over 180,000 listings on the site, this will be an outlet for your business rentals that is not to be missed.
The majority of these listings are from such popular online vacation rental web sites as Vacapedia.com, VROB.com and others. With this Google site still in its testing period, you are now encouraged to take advantage of this free service.
On Google Base, you can describe your vacation rental property in detail, as well as its amenities and any surrounding attractions. Google Base allows you to list your property by number of rooms, availability, location, type of property and other search words.
For no extra charge, you can attach up to 20 megabytes of files to further boost your listing and a variety of formats are offered. For images, you can use jpg, png, gif, tif and bmp files. For text and publishing you can use pdf, Microsoft Word, Power Point. Excel, Word Perfect documents, html, plain text and others.
This Google service is not only available to vacation rental property owners; it is actually for anyone to sell any property that is for sale or rent. It also offers many other items for sale or rent- and all free to the advertiser.
As Google is the Internet’s number one search engine, and more than 56% of all Internet searches using the term ‘real estate’ access the Google web sites, the exposure on this site will be considerable.
With so much space allowed for exposure of your vacation home, you will attract many types of traveler, from the person looking for a homey vacation rental that is ‘home from home’ to the last minute business couple.
Who says nothing is ever free?
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Why doesn't EVERY owner of a vacation rental property have each bedroom equipped with a TV?I have seen this a lot! You go onto VRBO.com and you look for a great place to vacation for the week. Everything looks perfect EXCEPT the second and third bedrooms do not have televisions. Ughhh! Why? They are not that expensive. Just because one is on vacation doesn't mean that we never watch television, right?
Thanks! Just venting somewhat.
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You can always try-the worst that can happen is they say "no"; you might want to research what similar rentals are going for in the area–you may already have a bargain. If its a "hot" area as well, you may have no bargaining power–if there already are multiple potential renters. Good luck.
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