If you don’t hire someone to field these inquiries, you’ll have to do it yourself.
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Vacation listing websites help you book renters but they can take up to 30 percent in commissions. While this may seem high, remember that each booking can involve dozens of inquiries for each renter. If you don’t hire someone to field these inquiries, you’ll have to do it yourself.
You probably don’t want to rely on a listing website alone for your marketing. If you do, you may be costing yourself a lot of rented nights each year. Here are some relevant facts from the Vacation Rental Property Marketing Blog about vacation rental owners’ marketing expenses:
Vacation rental owners spent an average of $1,150 per year marketing their properties in 2011.
Half of all vacation rental owners only use listing sites to market their properties. This group experiences annual average occupancy rates of 54 percent.
Vacation rental owners who combine listing sites with their own websites bump their occupancy rates up to 76 percent, on average.
94 percent of all vacation rental owners believe they could be doing more to promote their properties.
