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In the spirit of Web, we have compiled the following list of Web resources. If you don't find what you're looking for here at VRBO®, perhaps one of these other sites has what you're looking for.

Happy Travels!!!


Links for Travelers Links for Property Owners
Travel Tips:
Travelroo - search for great Airfare Deals
Travelroo - search for great Car Rental Deals
TripAdvisor - Planning a trip? Start here.
Learn  how to protect yourself while renting 'by owner' vacation properties.
For vacation travel tips and suggestions:  subscribe to the "Vacation Rentals by Owner" Newsletter
Find out about Vacation Rental Refund Policies and Trip Cancellation Insurance
Transitions Abroad - Provides practical no-nonsense information covering all aspects of work abroad, study abroad, overseas travel and international living.
TSA Travel Tips - Read the latest travel regulations from the Transportation Security Administration
Travelers' Health - Official U.S. government health recommendations for traveling. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Read about health risks and precautions for international travelers provided by the World Health Organization. Topics include: infectious diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Are you interested in selling or buying real estate? Check out these For Sale by Owner (FSBO) sites.

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Travel Guides and Directories:
Discover Israel Travel Hotels Tourism Guide - Comprehensive online travel guide
DogFriendly.com - U.S. and Canada Dog Travel Guides
@LA - The Guide to Greater Los Angeles and Southern California
DTR Travel Inc. - Your family travel specialist
FaresRus.com - Find cheap flights and hotels - Book online
Family Travel Fun - online planning guide for the best family vacations
JohnnyJet.com - The Ultimate Travel Website
Blog Search Engine - Looking for Travel blogs? Find them on BlogSearchEngine.com.
The Blog Directory Find more Travel blogs at Blogarama.com.
Travel companies broadcast their latest sales, specials and promotions on WorldTravelPlanet.com to thousands of travelers every day.

Miscellaneous:
Ectaco - Affordable electronic language translators and electronic dictionaries in many languages!
MoveEast.com - Moving Relocation Companies, California - New York Express
Discount Calling Cards - Get your international and domestic discount calling card starting at 1.9 cents per minute for all of your travel needs
Stop Unwanted Pop Up Ads! - Ad-aware is a free spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry, and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you remove them safely.
Go Boston Card: 51 Attractions and Tours - One low price includes trolley rides, harbor cruises, museums, historic sites, excursions and more.
Airline Tickets - The Traveler's Search Engine that finds airline tickets, discount hotels, car rentals, travel deals and hotel reservations.

Traveling with Children:
Baby's Rent-n-Go - Renting equipment & supplies to families with babies & young children visiting Phoenix, AZ
Baby's Away - The largest baby and child supply rental service with over 50 locations throughout the USA.

Accommodations:
Great Rentals - World wide Vacation Rentals
Cyberrentals - Largest list of East Coast Rentals
A1Vacations - Vacation Rentals all over the world
Choice1 - Vacation Properties worldwide
Mexico Adventure - Mexico Information Connection
Aruba-Info.com - Aruba Information - customs, weather, history.
Travigator Guide Directory - Travel Search Engine
Accommodation Search Engine - Worldwide
Timesharerentals.com - Timeshare Rentals
Mt. Baker Lodging - Mount Baker, WA
Blue Ridge Getaways - Family resort vacations in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mtns, Shenandoah Valley
TahoeCabinRentals.com - Lake Tahoe Cabin Rentals
Westcoast Vacations - Victoria Island, Canada Reservations
ResortOnline.com - A comprehensive directory of resort and real estate nationwide.
Hilton Head 360 - Hilton Head Island vacation rentals and real estate guide.
Barcelona Apartments: Hotel Alternative - Our accommodations always offer best quality and great prices in Barcelona, Spain.
Palm Springs Vacation Homes for Rent by Vacation Palm Springs - Private Palm Springs homes for Rent with Private Pools.   Rent weekly, monthly, weekend.

Transportation:
Bruno's Car Rentals - Costa del Sol, Spain
Dial A Flight - 6 million low cost fares from the UK's largest retailer of charter & scheduled flights
Croisierenet.com - Cruises booking center for worldwide cruises
Airport car hire - Car hire globally from cities and airports
A1 Luxury Limo Bus - Limousines and airport transportation in Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach.
A1 Car Service - Southwest Florida chauffeured transportation services.

Sport/Adventure Travel Services:
Kuuloa Kai Big Game Fishing  - Haleiwa, Oahu. HI

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Recommended Vacation Rental Books:
How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner
by Christine Karpinski
How to Make Your Vacation Rental Property Work for You
by Alfred & Emily Glossbrenner
Real Estate 101 - Buying Real Estate...
by Hilda G. Erfe

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Tax Advice:
Tax Rules for Second Homes - The tax breaks showered upon homeowners carry over to second homes, too, but things can get sticky if you rent out your vacation home to help pay the bills. Read the entire article here.
Are you a vacation rental owner? Are you thinking about purchasing a second home or vacation rental? If so, check out About Vacation Homes/Timeshares
SmartMoney.com - Taxes on Vacation, HomesTax Guide
AnalyzeToWin.com - Product to perform investment analysis of your  rental property or vacation home
Herak Financial Services - Innovative solutions for your IRA

Miscellaneous
Owner-Direct Reservation Services - An affordable start-to-finish reservation service. Using your existing VRBO® advertisement, we can increase your bookings, improve customer satisfaction and save you, the vacation-home owner, time.
Alex and Tony's Web Services - 30% discount on web design services to any active VRBO® participant.
Plumley Drafting - Professional Drafting Service with over 25 years of drafting experience, specializing in creating "As-Built" floorplans for Websites.
The Deck Guy - "Top Quality, Professional" deck cleaning service for Des Moines, Iowa
USA -Vacation -Connection: Web page translations from English to German
Free and reasonably priced real estate forms.
For Vacation Rental Owners - Designed for the needs of vacation rental property owners.
Lay My Hat - Advice for vacation rental owners, by vacation rental owners - free newsletter and forum

Don't send keys in the mail!!!
Roperlock - Key Lock Boxes
WebKey Systems Keyless Access Solution
– our electronic lock uses continuously changing time/date sensitive access codes to eliminate the cost of managing or mailing keys.

Caretaker Services:
KastleKeepers.net  - Destin, Florida and surrounding areas - Caretaker Services
While UR Away - Let us take care of your Colorado home.

By Owner Friendly Cleaning Services:
Glow Cleaning - Summit County, Colorado
G&I Cleaning - Breckenridge & Frisco, Colorado About The House - Summit County, Colorado
Chamberlain Cleaning - Destin, Navarre Beach, & Fort Walton Beach Area - Florida
Cabin Cleaners - For all your cleaning needs in Summit County, Colorado
Shore Clean - Offering services to Vacation Rental Owners in the Virginia Beach area.

The above cleaning services are neither approved or endorsed by this site. If you can recommend any "By Owner Friendly" Cleaning Services in popular Vacation areas, please send them to us.

Selected Christian Links
Crown Financial Ministries - Daily Devotional
Our Daily Bread
- Daily Devotional
OnePlace.com - One Place to go for Christian Resources
Church on the Web - International Christian directory and search engine

Coming Soon! - Dave's 2003 Bolivia W&W Trip
Kenya 2002 - Dave's 2002 Work & Witness trip
Nicaragua 2001 - Dave's 2001 Work & Witness trip

Look what others are saying about Vacation Rentals by Owner

Wall Street Journal - May 13, 2004 -
"There are ways to save money by cutting out the middlemen. The Website of Vacation Rentals By Owner, Vrbo.com, is one of the cheapest options for international booking because you rent directly from property owners. The site lists 24,500 homes from Crete to Budepest."
- Jane Spencer

Wall Street Journal - April 8, 2003 -
"Many renters hire real-estate agents to help them find their beach bungalows and lake cabins. But it's increasingly easy to contact property owners directly, which means access to a bigger pool of homes. Sites like vrbo.com are expanding their listings and adding new features, like bulletin boards for renter comments. The thousands of listings, sorted by geography, range from a six-bedroom home in Orlando, Fla., (with Mickey Mouse-shaped pool) for $1,400 a week to a recently renovated log cabin in the Hamptons for $2,500 a week." - Charles Passy

Wall Street Journal - April 12, 2002 - "if you'd prefer to deal... with owners, www.vrbo.com has about 9,000 listings world-wide, including spots in Africa, Ukraine and New Zealand. Some listings include a calendar showing dates that are available." - June Fletcher

Courier-Journal by Lucynda Koesters - Feb, 23, 2002 - "One site offers a truly comprehensive package for the condominium and vacation-home traveler. It's called Vacation Rentals by Owner and is located at www.vrbo.com .... My family has rented through vrbo.com three times over the past four years and has experienced no problems. We found many benefits in booking private residences over hotels. Roomy condos allowed us to spread our stuff through multiple bedrooms and living areas. Kids could watch TV or movies in separate areas from the adults. Kitchens allowed everyone to fix meals and snacks when they wanted, at much less cost than eating out. Rentals included use of swimming pools and private beaches. In all cases owners came through with all that was promised on the Web site." click here for entire article

Washington Post - June, 10, 2001 - "Vacation Rentals By Owner (www.vrbo.com) has 5,500 property listings, with more than 30 in New Mexico. Possibilities include a circular adobe-and-stone casita with "panoramic views" on 12.5 acres overlooking the Chama River. Rental rates for the house, located 45 miles north of Santa Fe, start at $650 a week... There's also a house called Casita Truchas, about 10 miles from Taos in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, that boasts a 60-mile view and rents for $600 to $800 a week..."

SmartMoney Magazine - Feb 2001 - "Rent direct from an owner and you can save 15 to 25 percent (that's the extra owners tack on if they hire an agent). Vacation Rentals by Owner has 4,300 listings, with many properties in Colorado and Florida" - Jennine R. Meyer

World Hot.com lists VRBO® in the World's Hottest 100 Travel Web Sites

The Mining Company - Honeymoons guide
USA Today - Travel Guide
In 2000 the Denver Rocky Mountain News named VRBO® one of Colorado's Top 100 web sites
Forbes Best of the Web

 

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