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

Book Description
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.

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.


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