Furnishedhomes.com offers more features than Vacation Rentals By Owner (vrbo) and many vacation rental directories. How do they charge nearly $300 to advertise 1 rental and you guys are FREE? How can you offer unlimited free vacation rental listings to owners and property managers?
Here’s the deal. Furnished Homes is the new kid on the block. When establishing a new brand on the world wide web you generally need 5 crucial pieces – time, money, a loyal following, a dedicated team and then some more money. At this stage of the game we’ve got a whole bunch of time! We have ample funds but need to use them wisely and we have the dedicated team. We think creating a long lasting relationship with YOU is our best strategy to develop the loyal following. What better way to create loyalty than to offer you the same service that you currently pay top dollar for and give it to you for FREE.
We are about presenting the best view of your vacation rentals online. We need your listings on our vacation rental map! If you have used the interactive google map search at Furnished Homes you can see that it is pretty darn cool. We’re getting great feedback from travelers and advertisers. If all the owners who are currently paying the top vacation rental sites, took the opportunity (5 minutes) to list the same homes, condos, cabins and beach houses to FurnishedHomes.com then we would really have something! A great vacation rentals site that could garner huge traffic to view your listings and contact you directly. Let’s dream a little and say the site grows to 100,000 listings! What would you pay to have your listing on a site like that? We’ll, chances are you currently advertise on a site like that, right now, for an average price of about $300 annually and your listing position is pretty much etched in stone unless you spend even more money. Furnishedhomes.com constantly reshuffles the deck and gives every standard listing equal opportunities to be viewed.
We do not mince words. There are many free sites out there trying to do the exact same thing we are. That is why we developed the site to be different than a standard copy cat directory. We really like maps and travelers have told us they really, really like maps. That is why we chose the interactive Google Map as the starting point for searches and not the ending point. If you are searching for buried treasure (vacation rentals) you would like to have a real map to get to the desired destination and so do travelers! Our site is free and we intend to be free for quiet some time. We still have a few tricks up our sleeve and look forward to rolling out even more features soon.
We think that most owners and managers, given a scenario in which Furnished Homes has nearly 100,000 listings, would gladly renew a vacation rental listing on a site like Furnishedhomes.com for $49 to $79 per year. At $49 per year that would be nearly 85% less than the big boy directories fees.
Can you help us create the Furnished Homes website that has nearly 100,000 listings for vacationers and travelers to search and is free to list? Yep! We need you! You are the single most important piece in the puzzle. You can drive a site like Furnished Homes to the top or not. Take 5 minutes to upload your property and then tell a few friends about us. We’re in this for the long haul and we sincerely hope you will join us in creating a premiere destination – FurnishedHomes.com – The Place to Find Furnished Rentals.
