The Furnished Rentals blog

Site news, travel tips and miscellaneous.

Vacation Rentals by Owner Advertising for no charge? Free Link "Juice" to your Vacation Home website!

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin are free services to promote your vacation rentals by owner.  FurnishedRentals.com offers you another free platform to push your presence on the web.

It is free to list vacation rentals by owner, corporate housing and vacation home rentals on our site.  When you add your free listing with up to 24 images, Youtube video and link back to your vacation website we automatically add you to our Facebook page and Tweet your listing!

Thousands of registered users have added their furnished accommodations to the site so thus far.  Add your place today for free and like us on Facebook here.

Got Internet? You'd better have Internet Access for your Vacation Rental to compete!

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"Do you have internet access?"  This is one of the top requirements for travelers.  If you want to maximize your rental bookings you'd better get it.

Travelers and vacationers want to stay connected and chances are if you do not provide high speed internet your visitors will find a rental with high speed access.  Wireless connections are in demand. 

Internet access for vacation homes and corporate housing is becoming a filter by which properties are searched.  In other words, show me only those rentals with high speed internet.  Many furnished rental listings use High Speed Internet as the title to their listings.

Would you travel without internet access?  Neither will the vast majority of your visitors.

FurnishedRentals.com allows you to find the perfect rental, filters include "Internet Access" and your mapped listing tab shows "This Property has Internet Access".
Your tabbed listing has quick view icons that allow visitors to favorite your rental, see if you are pet-friendly, non-smoking etc.

List your furnished rental today - it's quick, easy, professional and best of all it's free!

 

Best Free VRBO and Corporate Housing Ads - EVER! You would never guess it was FREE! Exactamundo!

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See for yourself - Furnished Rentals offers better looking listings than most of the pay for service sites - and it's FREE!

You won't receive a renewal for your listings on FurnishedRentals.com because it is FREE.  You will not receive traveler inquiries that tantalize you with tid-bits of a potential lead and leave out the contact info and vital info you need to secure a booking.  Sound familiar?  We're not working any gimmicks like that here - just free to list and free to search - always!

We're owners and vacationers too!  We developed this site to give travelers, owners and managers a high quality venue to connect at no cost.  We provide you with all the tools of the mega vrbo sites and then some.  There are no upgrades - everyone can add 24 images and personal links to their vacation or corporate housing website! 

The Vision - Best (FREE) Vacation Rental and Short Term Furnished Housing Website.

Please tell a friend about us and add your furnished rental now


Added Mug Shots and Owner Manager Bios

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Add some personality to your listings.  Why not post a picture (preferably not a mug shot) and type in a few words about yourself and your properties?  It's great to put a face with the name and lends even more credibility to your listings.
 
Log in and add your bio, picture of yourself, your property manager, avatar or company logo.  Travelers can click on your bio and contact you with questions and can also view all of your listings in one place.  All of your active furnished rentals will be listed just below your profile.
 
Looking forward to seeing all of you - for real!  Here is John's owner profile.


#1 Searched Furnished Rentals Website is 100% FREE with Featured Listings!

March 30, 2010 - FurnishedRentals.com - The Vacation Rentals by Map site announced today that all preferred full featured listings are FREE.  Full featured listings include up to 24 images, link back to personal websites, Youtube video uploads, Twitter interface, and Google calendar embeds.  There are no upgrades or upsells, and we don't ask for your credit card!  It's a level playing field for everyone with guest reviews, nearby attractions maps and much more to come!

Over the past 12 months vacation rental owners and managers expressed to us a desire for a very high quality listing site at an extremely affordable price.  Owners and property managers confirmed that if the Furnished Rentals website could offer a better product than nearly any vacation advertising site on the internet as to content, search and offer it for absolutely FREE - then we would really have something.  Our goal:  the #1 FREE Vacation Rentals and Furnished Housing website on the internet.

The Furnished Rentals community is now Free to all legitimate owners and managers.  An incredible advertising venue for you to post your vacation homes, corporate housing, extended stays and bed and breakfasts.  Check us out on Facebook and let's help each other grow!  In the first 48 hours our Furnished Rentals Facebook Fan Page garnered 200 fans!  Will you join us?

Instead of regurgitating another vacation rental directory we have used the Google maps interface and made searching for vacation rentals more fun and accurate for your travelers.  We will keep developing and moving forward with new changes and we welcome your suggestions.

List your furnished rentals for free here.

Embed Google Calendars to Preferred Listings

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Added new feature for preferred vacation rental listings today.  You can embed your Google Calendar to your listings!  Just log into your Furnished Rentals "my profile" and add your calendar link and the Google Calendar automatically renders in your listing.  We have a tool tip in the owner panel with Youtube demo for assistance.  It's a great tool to manage availability for your properties. 

List, Favorite and Recently Viewed Arrives!

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Furnished Rentals listings can now be viewed in a list at the bottom of the vacation rental map.  You will notice that there are 3 tabs labeled LIST, RECENTLY VIEWED and FAVORITES.  Visitors who are not logged in will see List view only.  Travelers who log in will see all 3 options to help keep track of their vacation rental search.

You can expand the list, hide it or use it in conjuction with the map searches.  If you would like to "favorite" a property that you are intrested in just click on the star icon at the top of the details page or the mapped icon.  You will see that it is now listed in your favorites. 

The Furnished Rentals list view will show Preferred listings first, followed by standard listings and lastly basic listings.  We have more updates to the site coming soon, including an availability calendar option that is fresh and easy to use!
Check out the new Twitter feed for your Preferred listings!  Pretty cool to update your furnished rentals listing with news about your vacation rental, specials and cancellations!

FurnishedRentals.com acquired by Furnished Homes

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Our domain for Furnished Homes has been changed to FurnishedRentals.com.  As we continue to develop the vacation rental and furnished housing map we were presented with an excellent opportunity to purchase the domain name FurnishedRentals.com.
 
Key word searches at most search engines, especially Google showed a massive increase for searches of furnished rentals vs furnished homes (nearly 25 times more or on average 300,000 monthly).  Furnished Rentals says it all as to what we do - we do furnished rentals. 
 
Searches on Google, Yahoo and Bing find Furnished Rentals coming up #1 most often and our other sister sites and blogs search high in the ranks too for a myriad of keyword searches relating to furnished vacation rentals, corporate housing and furnished accommodations.
 
Please note our facebook page has been updated too - www.facebook.com/furnishedrentals 
 

Home Page me Please!

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Common question coming into us recently - "How do I get my home pictured on the home page at Furnished Homes?"  You can get your home or destination featured on the home page when you place a preferred listing with high quality images.  We can't guarantee that your home will be one of the many beautiful homes that pops up each time the page is refreshed, but we will work darn hard to make it happen.  Some of our recent home page listings include Nye Beach Oregon, Oceanside California, Paris France, Cabo San Lucas Mexico, Gig Harbor Washington, Flagstaff Arizona and more.

Place a preferred listing for $99 annual and load us up with some really cool high resolution images of your place.  We will contact you for further details if needed.  Chances are you'll see your place on the home page!