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How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment

February 8th, 2010

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If your dream is to own a vacation home - and not break your bank account - this book is what you've been looking for. Author and speaker Christine Hrib-Karpinski offers you practical, hands on advice, showing you how to do it without property management companies so you can keep 100% of the income. Not only will you have realistic strategies for your renters to pay your mortgage - you'll also enjoy several weeks a year in that little slice of paradise with your friends and family. Discover the secrets of successful vacation home owners:

- Choosing the best property for you - Different financing options available - Organizing all rentals, paperwork, money and maintenance - Advertising for quick results - Identifying and avoiding "bad apple" renters - Maintaining your property from a distance - And much more!

The concept of Renting by Owner is catching fire throughout the nation. Whether you want a beachside condo in Florida, a ski cabin in Colorado, or anything in between, the answers are all herein this comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide. Vacation homes are no longer just for the wealthy. Start enjoying the benefits of your own marvelous home away from home. It can even be a legacy you leave behind for your children. Just make that first move. You'll be amazed by how much potential is within your reach - right now!

How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment

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5 Responses to “How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment”

Robert T. Kelly says:

February 9, 2010 at 12:50 am

An excellent book full of practical advice. We’ll keep it on hand as a reference. Example: don’t buy a $3,600 sofa, buy a $1,200 sofa and replace it twice. This book gave us confidence to take the plunge and buy a beach house.
Rating: 5 / 5
Midwest Book Review says:

February 9, 2010 at 2:20 am

Now in a substantially expanded and newly updated second edition, “How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner” continues to be the essential ‘how to’ manual for every aspect of buying, managing, furnishing, maintaining, advertising, and renting out a vacation rental investment. An indispensable instruction guide for anyone considering renting out their vacation property anywhere in the world, this new edition of “How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner” features more than $800 in money-saving coupons. There are complete and ‘user friendly’ information provided that will help the reader to choose the best property for them; select from among the various financing options available; identify (and avoid) problematic renters; efficiently organize the paperwork, finances, and maintenance for a rental; even maintaining a vacation rental property from a distance. Of special note is the section devoted to dealing with ‘post-Katrina’ insurance issues. Whether you are renting a beach-side condo in Southern California, a fishing-cabin in the Adirondacks, or a getaway ranch in Montana, “How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner” will prove a financially invaluable, operationally indispensable, soundly reliable, informed and informative reference that should be considered mandatory reading for anyone renting out a vacation property of any kind, anywhere in the country.
Rating: 5 / 5
M. Guerra says:

February 9, 2010 at 4:39 am

The basic premise of this book is great…simple ideas for preparing and marketing your vacation rental property. However, the author acts as an authority, yet trips on her own mistakes. For instance, her heavy suggestion that a VR owner hire a professional writer or editor is overshadowed by the fact that shehas numerour grammatical and punctual errors in that very section of the book! Overall, the meat of the book is a bit lean. She touches on many good points lightly. The author is now employed by a VRBO website: i.e., she’s making her living not just as a vacation rental owner, but now working for a website which advertises the VRBOs. That to me underscores that she is willign to go where the money is, and may not necessarily be the expert she portrays herself to be. Some great ideas here, but not to be taken as the “bible” of the VRBO world by any means.
Rating: 2 / 5
Gregg Georgakas says:

February 9, 2010 at 7:31 am

Fabulous book. right to the point with all of the basis to cover except dealing with obstinant neighbors that don’t want you to rent. YOu covered it all except for how to deal with them and the sherrif they call to strategically make it difficult for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
C. Hrib-karpinski says:

February 9, 2010 at 8:24 am

Dear Mister Blanchard,

The previous edition of this book, which was published before HomeAway existed, had all of the same websites mentioned as this newer edition.

Furthermore, I have been doing seminars for nearly 10 years. You can speak with many of the thousands of owners who had attended seminars prior to the first edition being published and they will tell you that I always made the same recommendations.

Yes I do work for HomeAway, and I have never been shy to disclose of my position within the company. And yes I fully disclose that in the book as well.

I was hired by HomeAway after my book was published (and on the bestseller’s list) for my industry expertise, not for marketing as you imply. I am the Director of the Owner Community.

I refuse to change my hat just because I now work for the company.

Christine Karpinski

Rating: 5 / 5