Christine Hrib Karpinski
Director of Owner Community at HomeAway and author of How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner and Profit from Your Vacation Home Dream
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HomeAway Owner Community: http://ownercommunity.homeaway.com
Location:
Austin, TX, 78704
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Karen McKinnon

Karen McKinnon Hi Christine, there used to be surveys posted on the Homeaway site that I can no longer find. Can you please direct me to them and also where might I find quarterly results posted? I am not only interested from an owner point of view but also in preparation for me thesis on 2nd home ownership turned rental business. Thanks a million!

Sat at 7:51pm · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
You'll have to contact the PR department of HomeAway. They have all of the quarterly reports. (They are super busy due to all the Super Bowl coverage, so it may take a while to get a response.) You can find PR contact info under about us on HomeAway.com.

I'd love to read your thesis when you are done.

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Christine
Sat at 9:10pm
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Hey Karen,

Looks like those reports are online (albeit a bit tough to find).

Here they are:... See More

http://www.homeaway.com/info/media-center/press-releases/Q309_VRMR

http://www.homeaway.com/info/media-center/press-releases/PR_2009/vrmr-q2_1

http://www.homeaway.com/info/media-center/press-releases/PR_2009/vrm-report-q109
Sun at 6:50am
Karen McKinnon
Karen McKinnon
Thanks a million!! I really appreciate you taking the time to post the information. I'll check them out tomorrow (hopefully before class ;-?
Sun at 8:33pm
Ed

Ed Just about to close on our vacation home on Cape Cod. Found your site while looking to rent it. Hoping to learn a lot from you.

February 4 at 3:48pm · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Congrats! Hope your closing goes smoothly! Cape Cod is a strong rental market!
February 4 at 8:34pm
Debbie Fiskum

Debbie Fiskum We are just planning to put our second home on the market as a vacation rental. Your site provides a lot of good info. We are excited to get it started. Ours is a secluded lake home in central Minnesota - lots of water activity and more!

February 3 at 6:29pm · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Welcome to the fun and rewarding vacation rental industry. The Owner Community is here to help. Let us know if you have any questions. Best wishes for a great 1st rental year!
February 3 at 8:13pm
Debbie Fiskum
Debbie Fiskum
Can't wait - much work to do before however...
11 hours ago
Patricia Benitez

Patricia Benitez CHRISTINE... for a website that call rent by owner its signature... do you think that 80% of lHOME AWAY listings in my town listed by realtors is really rent by owner? I don't think... strategically no good move.. You suggest that renters use search criteria (left part of the website) my chance to be seen by the re...nter is 20% when the chance by the realtors is 80% Is HOMEAWAY DIRECTING HIS BUSSINES TO RENT BY OWNERS? I DON'T THINK SO.. please let me know another town where this kind of proportion happen... so I will understand and see a new opportunity for all the owners...

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February 3 at 6:27am · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
But HomeAway is not a Rent by Owner site. They are an all encompassing vacation rental site. For travelers to have more choices in choosing vacation rentals, be it through the owners or through property managers. We're all in the same industry.

Property managers are not our competitors. Hotels are our #1 competitors.
February 3 at 8:10pm
Patricia Benitez

Patricia Benitez I'm a home owner. Today I researched Homeaway website and the houses that they have listed in my liitle beach town, I was planning to list my house.. But what a surprise they have almost 700 houses in my town listed but, almost 600 houses below to a big realtor Weitcher Realtors and all of them where in the first 19 p...ages..... So, the likelihood to be seen even when if Renter use search criteria is minimun... What a sad thing. Homeway will be an extension of realtors? At this point Christine even you will be sad to see listings wiht out pictures. What do you think...

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February 2 at 4:56pm · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
I own in areas where there are a lot of property manager's homes listed too. But in my experience, it's easy to make my home stand out from the rest with better and different photos, compelling headlines and I do think my ads are more "complete" than most property managers.

Remember a traveler might use those buttons on the left side of the page to refine their results too.
February 2 at 8:02pm
Patricia Benitez
Patricia Benitez
When the renters use the left side of homeaway website which is a search criteria there is 80% of chance that the properties that they will have below to THE REALTOR.... That is the actual composition.. sad.... IS TIME TO MAKE OWNER... OWNERS OF THEIR OWN WEB SITE.?
February 3 at 6:15am
Melissa Henson Kaiser

Melissa Henson Kaiser We're just beginning the vacation rental home process. We are curious, for a smaller room, bunk beds or daybed with trundle?

January 26 at 9:26pm · Report
Melissa Henson Kaiser
Melissa Henson Kaiser
We are hoping to use part of the room for a play center for kids (book shelf for toys, etc.) so we wanted to try to just take up the space of a twin bed either bunks or daybed with trundle. I figured adults wouldn't like bunk beds and the daybed/trundle was best especially for any adults/kids who didn't want to necessarily "share" a bed.
January 28 at 10:39am
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
The daybed with a pop-up trundle would work well for you then. This way it would be like a King when it's popped up.
February 2 at 7:58pm
Christine Hrib Karpinski

Christine Hrib Karpinski Brian Sharples, CEO of HomeAway, Inc, hijacks Christine’s blog to get everyone pumped for our 1st nat’l ad campaign! http://budurl.com/ebjf

January 26 at 12:53pm
Laci

Laci Does anyone use Vacation Rent Pro? If so, how do you like it?

January 26 at 11:19am · Report
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January 19 at 10:06am
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Sorry I have never used them. Christine
January 26 at 12:51pm
Maria Errante

Maria Errante I'm looking for a new credit card merchant...would appreciate any recommendations from other property owners. The fees, the minimums, percentages....so many things to consider I going crazy!

January 18 at 11:28am · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
You can check out many articles on this topic here http://bit.ly/4tzbqs also HomeAway and VRBO have partnered with this vendor: http://bit.ly/610cXW
Stay Tuned Christine Just recorded a podcast which talks about Credit Card merchant accounts. It should be posted with the next 3 or 4 weeks.
January 24 at 5:25pm
Lianna

Lianna Does anyone have any advice about software that integrates money and reservations (not necessarily online bookings)?

Thanks!
Lianna
The B Hive
Austin, TX

January 12 at 7:18am · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
HomeAway Connect Calendar has that capability. http://www.homeawayconnect.com/
January 24 at 5:26pm
Lianna
Lianna
Thank you Christine for your reply. I went to the website, logged in and try to add services. I got an error msg both times. I can't even look or peruse what the additional services are.
Thanks!
Lianna
January 25 at 4:37am
Andrea Saxony

Andrea Saxony You have my Windsor Hills villa listing no 262320 on your site as being on Indian Ridge & I cannot find an update advert option on the site anywhere. Could you change this for me or tell me how to do it myself.
The willa is called Magnolia View.

Thank you
Andrea

January 9 at 8:58am · Report
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
The way you update is is on the top left side of the homepage you'll see a link that says "owner login" If that does not work, you'll have to contact HomeAway Customer Support. http://support.homeaway.com/
January 24 at 5:29pm
Jorge Nazario

Jorge Nazario We are considering allowing pets at our Homeaway rental. Can anyone provide advice or point me to information that discusses pros and cons of permitting pets? I am concerned about dealing with a pet accident during the high rental season. Thanks.

December 29, 2009 at 12:30pm · Report
Liz Kukulka
Liz Kukulka
We allow pets at 2 of our rentals. They fill every year and we have never had a problem with any of them (honestly!!). I do charge an extra fee per pet and I do take security deposits. I also have a list of rules for pets and their owners responsibilities. It works very well and the people really appreciate the hospitality!
January 19 at 2:08pm
Christine Hrib Karpinski
Christine Hrib Karpinski
You can find all things for pet rentals here: http://bit.ly/4FCpe5
January 24 at 5:31pm
Tansy Forster

Tansy Forster I just wanted to say I started advertising with holiday-rentals.co.uk 7 years ago - there were 4 properties in La Manche Normandy then & we owned 2 of them! But even now h-r & fewo bring in 80% of our business - thank you - we are http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/search/keywords:98118
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December 29, 2009 at 9:14am
Petra Giacone

Petra Giacone Homeaway suggestions and Christine Karpinski guidelines made a great different in my rentals in Tuscany Chianti, even during 2009 which was a very hard year! Thank you soo much! Petra

December 29, 2009 at 1:41am · Report