provided by:http://www.deadlinenews.com/Want to keep vacancies down and income up on your vacation home investment? Listen to this real estate investor, author and vacation home rental adviser.
by Broderick Perkins
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Deadline Newsroom - The vacation home rental game has changed.
From food to fuel; eats to energy and credit to cribs, few costs have escaped inflation's wrath and that's put a damper on a lot of travel plans.
While savvy travelers often pick privately-owned vacation home accommodations to save a few bucks, many travelers don't even have a few bucks to save.
Vacation homeowners who want to attract these visitors and see vacancies vanish can benefit from "How To Attract Guests To Your Vacation Home -- Yes, Even At $4 A Gallon," a selection of tips from Christine Karpinski, a real estate investor and director of Owner Community for HomeAway.com, a portal for vacation home rentals where keeping vacation homes rented is their business.
Here's what Karpinski advises:
• Think positive. Sure money is tight and credit is tighter, but in America, bad times generate a yen for good times as people seek to escape the doom and the gloom. Even with the higher price of gas, it can still cost a lot less to drive to a nearby vacation home than to hop a jet and fly to a resort. Include marketing that makes the "budget travel" case to potential renters. ...
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