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

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


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Added Mug Shots and Owner Manager Bios

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.


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#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.

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Embed Google Calendars to Preferred Listings

 

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. 

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List, Favorite and Recently Viewed Arrives!

 

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!

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FurnishedRentals.com acquired by Furnished Homes

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 
 

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Home Page me Please!

 

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!

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How to search our maps for furnished rentals

How to use the Furnished Homes map - Posted on Youtube

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Guest Reviews activated for Standard & Preferred Listings

Guest reviews for your furnished rentals and vacation homes are now available for your listings!  When you return security deposits and thank your guests for staying at your rental be sure to include a link to your FurnishedHomes.com listing and encourage them to leave feedback about their visit. 

Guest reviews can be that extra push needed to convince visitors that they can trust you and encourage them to book your property.  This screen shot shows how guest reviews appear.  At the top of each listing it will show the number of reviews for your property.  Your guests can log in and post reviews to your listings.  If you have a basic listing you can activate guest reviews and additional features when you upgrade to standard or preferred.

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How far to the Vacation Rental is it really? Use the new "distance getter" tool!

 

This example shows our vacation rental map distance "getter"!  Sorry still thinking of a good name for this little feature.  Here's the example:  typed in zip code 85712 into the map search, hit enter, red marker shows zip code 85172, mouse over any property and this red line streaks from property to zip code marker and shows shortest drive distance to your vacation rental. 

The distance shows 10.3 miles from Riverwalk rental to marker.  We think it comes in handy when you need to be close to a certain attraction, landmark or meeting place.  Lastly, you can grab the red marker and move it around to areas that you see on the map.  For example, drag the marker to the edge of the beach or the entrance of an amusement park and bingo you have the distance and shortest route to your destination.

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