How can you use rental vacation revenues to guide your real estate investment decisions? This was a great conversation topic last night at the entrepreneur retreat that I am currently attending. To support my opinion, I quoted 3 informative pieces that I had recently come across : A study by agency Villa-Bali.com on where to buy a rental property in Bali … Read More
Instagram for Vacation Rentals: My Resources List
What tools and techniques am I using to grow my Instagram account? This is a question I’ve been asked several times, especially after publishing this blog post: “How Kim Kardashian and Instagram Help Me Get More Bookings for My Vacation Rentals“. So, I’ve put together for you this resources list that you may find useful : My goal: To get … Read More
When can you raise the rates at your vacation rental? The St Barths Case.
How do you know when it is OK for you to raise the prices for a week at your vacation rental? There are online tools around that help you automate rental pricing, such as BeyondPricing and Everbooked. They work quite well if your rental is listed on Airbnb and is located in an area where these services are available. My … Read More
How Kim Kardashian and Instagram Help Me Get More Bookings for My Vacation Rentals
I had to say no to the Kardashians. I was approached this week by their entourage, as Kim Kardashian and her family were arriving to St Barths, the French Caribbean island where I own 2 vacation rentals. Apparently, Kim’s sister, Khloe Kardashian, was interested in staying at BelAmour, my luxury designer villa for 2. I had to say no to her, … Read More
My Obsession: Generating leads for my vacation rental business
Are you one of them? Are you one of these vacation rental owners want to be free? Free from listing sites such as HomeAway and Flipkey? My own goal is more about knowing how to better use any of these tools, before ditching any, but this is another topic. For most of these “freedom fighters”, it means building their own websites. … Read More
Rental Owners Share Their Proven Tips and Useful Tools + More Rental Marketing Advice
This is the online version of my weekly RentalPreneurs newsletter. You can subscribe to it for here by clicking here. RentalPreneurs.com More Bookings and More Freedom for Rental Entrepreneurs Issue 3 How do you spend less time handling customers? If you have ideas, let me know.I’ve decided to stop being the wonderful travel concierge that I usually am for my … Read More
Steal these 5 PDFs from HomeAway + More Rental Advice
This is the online version of my weekly RentalPreneurs newsletter. You can subscribe to it for here by clicking here. RentalPreneurs.com More Bookings and More Freedom for Rental Entrepreneurs Issue 2 How can you improve your rental marketing this week? I am always amazed by all the great content that you can find online to improve your vacation rental marketing. … Read More
My French Airbnb book “Airbnb : Doublez vos Réservations” has been released
If you are a French-speaking Airbnb host, you may be interested to know that you can get my real-life tips on how to to get more bookings, get more freedom and spend less time with Airbnb. I have released internationally my book “Airbnb : Doublez vos Réservations” on the various Amazon websites. It is already #1 in France for books … Read More
My experience with OneFineStay, the unhotel, as a Luxury Vacation Rental owner
It was 10PM in Paris and my guests had already been stuck in front the door of my apartment for 3 hours. They just could not open the damned door. Oh, and I was more than 4,000 miles (6,700 kilometers) away from them, in my St Barts villa rental. This had been my first try with short term rentals and … Read More
Vacation Rental Marketing for Luxury Property Owner
(This blog post is a follow-up to Insider’s Tips for Luxury Vacation Rental Owners) Putting your vacation rental in the care of a Property Management Company Taylor: So Thibault, I had on Heather Bayer from CottageBlogger.com who not only rents out her vacation rentals but also has a property management company. Do you find that property management companies or villa rental … Read More
Insider’s tips for luxury vacation rental owners
Taylor White is a fantastic podcast interviewer, host of the Overseas Property Insider Podcast. If you are interested in international real estate, overseas mortgage financing options, tips on increasing your vacation rental returns, strategies on house sitting, how to exchange your home for someone else’s, tactics to travel hacking success, ideas involved in budget travel, and how others are overseas … Read More