Christine Creasey, owner of Florida Golf and Disney Villa ( http://www.lastminutevillas.net/villa/65/ ), reminds potential vacation rental owners how time consuming it can be to look after property, especially if you organize your own rentals. "Make sure you know who is going to manage your home in your absence," she advises. Running a full-fledged bed and breakfast is even more time consuming, requiring much longer hours than an office job, and probably hiring staff to help you manage.

Neil Thornton, owner of a 4-bedroom executive villa ( http://lastminutevillas.net/villa/335/ ) in Orlando, Florida, warns about grief caused by hurricanes, a common occurrences in tropical climates where vacation rentals are most popular. "Can you be 5000 miles away, knowing there are guests in your villa, there is a hurricane approaching and all power lines and telephones are down. What do you do?" asks Dave Gordon, owner of Lindisfarne Villa ( http://www.lastminutevillas.net/villa/89/ ).

Perhaps most obvious advice comes from Lesley and Gerry Heane, owners of Our Dream Villa ( http://www.lastminutevillas.net/villa/15/ ) south of Walt Disney World: "Always check out area and site of Villa." It goes without saying, but I have seen too people kick tires on a car but never try driving it before buying – and I am sure it is same with vacation rental properties, especially since they are so often so far away.

What all these vacation rental owners are saying boils down to knowing what you are buying, what it could cost you and being prepared before you buy. Every one of them enjoys owning vacation rental property, but many people jump in too soon, only to realize that this is not place they want to be.

Before you jump in, make sure you really want to own a vacation rental. If you do, I wish you many years of success and pleasure.

Forums:

Forums are not only away for free advertising but you can also ask questions from people that have different way of looking at things or just plain have answer to your questions. You can also answer question for other; it builds your credibility up and gets you exposure for your business. The way to find forums that relation to your Website is to do a search for “______ forums”, example: it could be video games forums, cb radios forums, Internet business forums, etc…

Press releases:

Sounds so professional, but you can do it, I have faith! A press release simply tells World about your company and that you are ready to do business. Most sites you go to will have a temple you can go by to do this, I will be providing that soon, maybe by time you read this. It’s pretty straightforward and anyone that can type can do this. You can do a search on “ Free Press release submission”

Link exchange:

Link exchange is a good way to get free advertising and looks good for search engines. You can do this in a couple of ways but you need to do what is right for you! There are link exchange programs out there that are for free and some you pay for. Stay away for ones that you cannot pick and choose which sites you want to link with. Link farm are very bad for your site and can go against you with search engines. Link farms are from companies that upload, let’s say 100 links to your site and those same links will be on all other sites as well. It’s like a generic links pages, way not good. It defeats purpose of links and shuts you out of search engines.

Paid vs free, Paid everything is done for you, all you have to do is accept links from other sites or go out and request a link exchange with another site with basically a touch of a button. The free link exchange you have to go out and request individual link exchanges manually. Then manually add their links to your site and there is not guarantee they will link back after doing so. It all depends on how much time you want to put into this.

Good Luck and Please contact me if you need help or have any questions. That is what I’m here for,

Veronica Bath

My mission is to help people with their goals of becoming their own boss or just make extra money. I have been scammed big time before and want to help other avoid doing the same thing.