Orlando Vacation Home Reservations
- Can be a bit of a Mess?
So by now you have probably logged on to twenty different vacation home management company web sites and a bunch of for rent by owners and looked at hundreds or even thousands of pages?
Most vacation home sites allow you to surf through hundreds of homes in an attempt to allow you to try and pick which home, community and location is better. How can you figure this out only by looking at pictures? Well it’s tough. This is one more reason you should work with a credible and reliable vacation home management company.
Vacation homes do need to be rated fairly, accurately and independently using standard scoring.
Standard scores should be available for:
1. Location
2. Quality of Home
3. Quality of Community
4. Overall Score
For example, a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home in Orlando with an overall score of 8.5 might rent for $180/per night, but a 4 bedroom 3 bathroom home with an overall score of 7.5 might rent for $150/per night over the same period. Once a home is scored, the potential guest now has an actual value criterion. A star rating system could also be used.
It is most likely a vacation home manager is trying to rent a property they manage or a vacation home owner is trying to rent a property they own. Because the industry is so fragmented, there is no uniform standard to compare the different homes.
Recently we visited Emerald Island, a great community of nice homes in a good location, and then we traveled towards Poinciana and came across a vacation home community (which shall remain anonymous), and the community amenities and location were very much inferior to Emerald Island. If you don’t know the area, and you are booking via the Internet based on photos and web sites, you could very easily end up in an inferior vacation home community. This is fine, as long as it is reflected in the rental price, and the consumer has full information.
However, the consumer often has no idea on the location significance, quality of community or quality of home they are about to rent. Instead, they have to farm thousands of pages on complex property management sites hoping they pick the right home.
Some vacation home companies do not independently score each of their homes and provide scores to both owners and to the guests who reserve them. This needs to change. Some home scoring systems have debuted recently.
Wouldn’t it be great if this service could be available for guests in advance? Forums such as Trip Advisor for hotels shows the good, the bad and the ugly. Vacation homes should be the same.
Once again we recommend you use only the most credible and professional of vacation home management companies
