How to Rent a Vacation Home
For your next trip, skip the impersonal hotels and rent someone else's vacation home!
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Instructions
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Determine your needs for a vacation home rental, including occupancy dates, desired location, space requirements and costs.
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Call or write the chamber of commerce or tourist board in your desired location to request a listing of available rental properties.
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Investigate other available vacation rentals through Internet listings, rental property management companies, travel agents and classified newspaper ads in your desired vacation spot.
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Narrow your search by checking on the availability of specific vacation homes during your scheduled vacation time.
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Find out the owner's policies about pets, smoking, security deposits, refunds, cancellations, damages, utility costs, arrival time, checkout time and maximum number of occupants.
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Ask for a written rental contract, especially for seasonal or monthly rentals, to protect your interests.
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Reserve the vacation home for a specific time period by submitting a deposit and requesting confirmation of your reservation.
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Tips & Warnings
Search the Internet to find great vacation homes for rent in foreign countries.
Avoid vacation disappointments by getting references about good vacation home rentals through friends, neighbors and family members.
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Comments
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sunnytexas
Jan 28, 2009
If we are renting out our vacation home in Texas, do we need to charge a hotel tax? -
sunnytexas
Jan 28, 2009
If we are renting out our vacation home in Texas, do we need to charge a hotel tax?
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Nov 22, 2005
If you will be spending more than a week at the home, especially if you are vacationing "off-season," try to negotiate a lower rate. We stayed in a cabin in the Sierras for a month, but because it was off-season we got it for the regular weekly price!
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Nov 22, 2005
If you will be spending more than a week at the home, especially if you are vacationing "off-season," try to negotiate a lower rate. We stayed in a cabin in the Sierras for a month, but because it was off-season we got it for the regular weekly price!
