New Technology Compares Vacation Home Rental Sites

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The Vacation Home Rental Industry top web sites for Vacationers and Homeowners are Rent My Vacation Home dot com, HomeAway, Airbnb and VRBO.

New York, New York (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

The Vacation Home Rental Industry has new technology that compares the top web sites for Vacationers and Homeowners. Rent My Vacation Home dot com, HomeAway, Airbnb and VRBO are compared with this technology. The services offered are different for each one, looking at the number of web sites, location, cost, insurance, payment systems and ease of search with options in this comparison. The vacationers and Vacation Homeowners were asked to report on the areas above to compare the sites and offices.

Number of web sites: Rent My Vacation Home® dot com has 83 web sites synced on one network. VRBO is one site, HomeAway has 13 sites with one in the U.S.A. and Airbnb has 2 sites, one in the USA.

Locations: Rent My Vacation Home® dot com has 83 offices in the U.S.A, HomeAway, Airbnb and VRBO report 1 office each in the states.

Cost: All are free for vacationer’s year around. Homeowners pay in various ways: Rent My Vacation Home dot com is free 30 days then 16.00 each month with no contract and cancel anytime. (No commission and includes Homes for Sale and Rent)

HomeAway is $336.00 yearly and then each level the homeowner pays so they are not on the back pages of the site.(No Commission). (Offer For Sale Home at a extra charge)

VRBO owned by HomeAway has the same system as above with $349.00 paid yearly and then pay for levels. (No Commission). (No Offer For Sale Homes)

Airbnb has a commission payment system where the charge is added on to the price of the stay and paid by the vacationer with the rate being 6-12 percent with 3 percent of total sales by Homeowner paid as well. (No offer For Sale Homes)

Insurance: Rent My Vacation Home® dot com has Insurance calculated at check out to protect the home and cancellation. HomeAway, Airbnb and VRBO, do the same thing with a email system.

Payment Systems: Rent My Vacation Home dot com has a built in check out system based on the Holiday Inn system many travelers use. HomeAway, Airbnb and VRBO use an email system in the same way.

Ease of search and Options: Rent My Vacation Home® dot com has a bidding and email or phone with Instant check out feature. The search engine at Rent My Vacation Home® dot com searches 83 sites at once. HomeAway, VRBO and Airbnb offer a basic search of their site.

Summary

The sites are all outstanding but from a new technology standpoint and for price and ease of search the site picked was Rent My Vacation Home dot com with VRBO second, HomeAway third with Airbnb forth. The information for this report came direct from the websites of the companies mentioned here.

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