Renting your vacation home Tampa FL

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
© 2008 DeadlineNews.Com

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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