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How to Make Your Vacation Property Work for You!: The Quick and Easy Guide to Advertising, Renting, Managing, and Making Money from Your Second Home [Ring-bound]

Alfred Glossbrenner (Author), Emily Glossbrenner (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)


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October 2003
If you own a second home, you have the potential to boost your annual income by literally thousands of dollars by turning it into a vacation rental that earns money when you aren’t using it. In this book-and-CD package, you’ll learn exactly how to do it. Even if you’re already using your second home as a vacation rental, the book can help you maximize the income it generates each year. It doesn’t matter where you want to be along the spectrum of possibilities:

1. If you’ve never offered your property as a vacation rental before, you’ll find all the tools, tips, and information you need to save thousands in commissions by handling everything yourself. It really isn’t that hard to do.

2. If you prefer to have a rental agent or property manager take care of everything for you but aren’t quite satisfied with the number of bookings you’re getting, you’ll discover ways to inexpensively promote your property to prospective renters from all over the world--and how to negotiate lower management commissions on the business that you bring in.

3. Or maybe you’d rather steer a middle course by handling the marketing and bookings yourself and buying cleaning and maintenance services from a property manager or from some local firm. That, too, is a viable option.

Whatever course you choose, you’ll find everything you need in this book/CD package. Designed as a complete "Vacation Property Owner’s Toolkit," the package consists of a 320-page book in a three-ring binder, and a CD containing crucial rental forms and checklists that you can customize and print out for your own use. The CD also contains a collection of Windows programs selected to help you manage and market your vacation property easily and effectively.

And, by the way, after you’ve applied what you’ve learned, you can probably reduce or completely eliminate any current print-advertising expenses. The approach described in this package really is that powerful.


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About the Author

Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner have been delighting readers for over 25 years. Known for their in-depth research and uncanny ability to identify and present the essence of a topic in clear, conversational prose laced with wit and humor, the Glossbrenners are the authors of over 60 books on topics as diverse as hitting a baseball, managing personal finances, and reading popular fiction.

They are also among the pioneers of the online/Internet revolution, having written one of the very first books on the subject back in 1982. With combined sales of over one million copies, their work has been consistently praised by publications as varied as Booklist, Forbes, Esquire, Wired, and the New York Times. They live and write in a 200-year-old farmhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and have been successfully advertising, renting, and managing their own vacation rental property for almost a decade.


Product Details

  • Ring-bound: 320 pages
  • Publisher: FireCrystal Communications (October 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 0974493007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0974493008
  • Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.9 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,737,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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2.0 out of 5 stars This book is for absolute novices, April 9, 2004
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"scarey7" (newport beach, ca United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Make Your Vacation Property Work for You!: The Quick and Easy Guide to Advertising, Renting, Managing, and Making Money from Your Second Home (Ring-bound)
I just paid over $100 for this book and I was disappointed. Over 100 of the 300 pages of the guide are simply a glorified advertisement and screen prints (filler) from what the authors call the "big 4" vacation rental websites. There were a few useful tips that I got from the last two chapters of the book, but it is not worth the price. This book may help you if you have never rented a house before, and you are new to the internet, otherwise, it is much too basic to be useful.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, January 15, 2004
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Rick Scali (Buford, Georgia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Make Your Vacation Property Work for You!: The Quick and Easy Guide to Advertising, Renting, Managing, and Making Money from Your Second Home (Ring-bound)
Great book. Worth every penny. My listings are going through the roof! I have owned long term rentals for some time, but this was my first venture with a vacation rental. After implementing a number of suggestions from the book, my bookings are now 30% above where they were a year ago. Very, very worthwhile purchase.

Rick Scali

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything You Need To Know For Renting Your Second Home, March 1, 2004
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Lincoln Fulton (Twin Mountain, New Hampshire USA) - See all my reviews
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I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Alfred and Emily for the excellent job they have done in putting together this book and CD on How To Make Your Vacation Property Work For You! It seems they have left no stone unturned in their effort to provide as much step by step information on how to do the best possible job in marketing and renting a property. We are brand new to this business. Our acquisition of these materials has come at exactly the right time. From marketing and managing your property to developing comprehensive forms and checklists, it is all there in clear and concise language. "Quick tips" provide you with excellent helps and innovative ideas that the authors have either used successfully or give suggestions on how you might go about using them. This book is a "Must Have" for anyone who is thinking about getting into the vacation rental business or who is already in the business.
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