Vacation Home Rentals- Everybody Wins
Vacationers and owners of vacation homes have found a point of convergence, and it’s all about supply and demand. Finding vacation homes for rent in the areas of the country where they will be spending their leisure time allows vacationers comfortable and affordable alternative to cramped hotel loving, and offering their vacation homes for rent give the homeowners a handy extra income with which they can payoff the mortgage on those vacation homes.
As with all markets, the one offering vacation homes for rent has its top-end offerings, for which the the pool of possible renters is limited to the deepest pockets of the entertainment, industrial, and financial giants. They can run in excess of $35,000 a day, the cost of renting a villa on a private cay in New Providence, The Bahamas.
But for those of us who still walk with out feet on the ground, comfortable vacation homes for rent, depending on their location, will usually cost between $1500 and $2100 per week during peak demand periods and between $700 and $1500 during the off-season.
Income For Homeowners
For owners with vacation homes for rent, those figures compute to between about $14,000 and $40,000 per year in income, if they can keep their vacation homes for rent occupied five months a year.
Statistics show that during the recently-ended real estate boom over fourteen percent of percent of all single family homes purchased were intended for vacation homes. A great many of them are available as short-term vacation home rentals, as a quick Internet search will prove.
Savings For Vacationers
If you’re vacationing with your family or friends, the chances are good that you will need at least two separate hotel rooms. Hotel rooms in resort areas can easily cost $100 per night, and much more during peak demand. In contrast, you may find a two-or-three bedroom home, with multiple baths, kitchen, laundry, swimming pool, cable, and Internet access all included for $200 per night.
You’ll be able to eat some or all of your meals in, saving on the cost of restaurants, do your own laundry, and if the home has a yard, get out and enjoy a bit of sun–all in your pajamas, if you feel like it. You won’t be concerned about leaving your valuables behind, either.
If you’re uncertain about finding vacation homes [http://www.vacationhomeshelp.com/Vacation_Homes_Near_Disney/] for rent online, find out how long ago the online photographs of the vacation homes were taken, and make sure there is at least one picture of all the rooms in which you will spend a lot of time–the bedrooms, baths, living area, and kitchen. If a picture of the beach or some other area attraction was taken from the home’s upstairs balcony, find out if a zoom lens was used to lessen the distances involved.
Finally, unless you have a chance to view the vacation homes for rent in person, try to find one whose owners will accept credit card payment. That way you can walk out immediately if things are not as advertised, and have you credit card company do a chargeback.