Comments on: Tightwad Tuesday: Rent a Vacation Home

By: Tomek

Tomek — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:57:02 +0000

I work for HomeAway and wanted to say thanks for recommending our website in your post. As someone who prefers to stay in vacation rentals, I wanted to let you know about the “Why I Deserve a Getaway from HomeAway” contest in which you could win a $5,000 vacation—on us! Check out http://blog.homeaway.com for more information.
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By: Angie @ Many Little Blessings

Angie @ Many Little Blessings — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:22:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I never thought about renting a home. I bookmarked the site (and the one that people mentioned in the comments). Thanks!

By: G&D

G&D — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:56:27 +0000

Wow–great idea about the home rental. Glad to hear you had a wonderful vacation!

By: Toblerone @ Simple Mom

Toblerone @ Simple Mom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:14:09 +0000

This is good to hear, as we are thinking of taking a vacation in Sunriver this winter! I’ll probably e-mail you for this place’s details. :)

Glad you had fun! We’re off to the beach now…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:59:32 +0000

Full Disclosure: I do geek work for my day job for some of the Sunriver vacation rental companies and my URL is to my personal blog — not the company(s) I work for.

But you’re absolutely right, and this is a similar message that industry associations have been trying to spread for years: Vacation rental travel, either with a property management company or with a private owner, is much better for the wallet in the long run than a hotel. You can save yourself money by not going out to dinner all the time, and you can save yourself a headache by being able to lock your kids in another room of the house ;-)

Private owners are generally going to be cheaper than professionally managed homes, but they’re generally a bit more of a risk. Sometimes they’re not as well taken care of nor do they include as many of the other benefits and local area discounts you can receive if you rent from one of management companies. Nor do you have as much piece of mind when it comes to if you have problems — a company can fix something immediately or send you to another home, if need be). Private homeowners (and this is occasionally a problem in Sunriver) sometimes will try to skirt by local transient room tax laws, which is why they’ll be able to charge lower rates (they get bitten eventually).

I just got back from a vacation on the Oregon coast with a private vacation rental home, and will probably never stay in a hotel over there again — it’s basically the same price for my family and I get more room. What’s not to like?

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:52:31 +0000

My mother used to own one of the homes that was rented out by the week. This home was in a tourist town, and she did very well by it. Remember this was in the late 80’s- early 90’s she used to rent out the 4 bedroom house for $600 a week.

She did very well on this investment.

In Big Bear you can buy home to rent out, it is a good investment.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:57:38 +0000

I use vrbo.com and rent homes whenever we go on vacation – even if it is just the two of us. The best deal I ever got was a week in Colorado in a 1BR condo for $400/week. You can’t beat it!

By: Amiyrah

Amiyrah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:08:31 +0000

great trip! reminds me of when we used to go up to the poconos(in PA) and stay at my grandfather’s time share. We never ate out and there were trollies to all of the fun activities right in the resort area(including a water park and horseback riding). My grandfather has 6 kids with families so they all split the bill and we took turns using the time share all summer. One of our big family pictures was taken there when we all crowded on the balcony, grandchildren and all. Ahhh memories! So glad you’re back!