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| Breaking all the Rules: How to Rent Your Vacation Home Includes Welcome Book and Property Listing | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Marie R Ferguson
Category: EBooks
List Price: $19.97
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $9.98 (50%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 30406
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 76
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
ASIN: B000NW114Y
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
Breaking All The Rules:How To Rent Your Vacation Home.. comes with an Instructional Welcome Book to help your guests enjoy their stay. Learn how to create the best rental in your area. -
Increase Your Profits! -
Get More Bookings. -
Find Qualified Renters -
Minimize Potential Damage -
Prepare Your Home For Rentals. -
Sample Rental Agreements That Work For You! -
Advertise Like a Pro! Make Your Rental Stand Out. Plus free Property Listing for one full year on www.DreamAwayVacationRentals.com
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Excellent and Concise - Just what I was looking for! January 3, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Its a great book!!!!!
Last spring I bought a vacation home with the intentions of renting it out. I am a busy mom with very little time, but I figured I would give it a try.
Well, a friend of mine told me about Marie's book so I bought it. After I read it, everything fell into place! She answered all my questions and then some, things I never thought about. This book is a no-nonsense book! Gets right to the point. There's no advertisement pages (like other rental books on the market) to take up space. - just pure information on how to rent out your vacation home.
I use her Welcome Book she sent me, "customized" for my vacation home and my guests find it very helpful. Marie also listed my property on her website too for all of 2009 - free of charge - free advertisement.
I love Marie's ideas on how to prepare your home for rentals. Her system made it easy for me to use as well as for my housekeeper. She gave me some creative ideas on welcome gifts. And, how to handle security deposits, house keys, rental rules, rental agreements and what to do about cancellations.
Also, Marie helped me with screening your renters, what to say, and how to find out if they are qualified or not.
Marie gave me ideas on how to take the best pictures for advertisement. I emailed her pictures and she gave me free advice. It is so nice knowing she is there to answer all of my questions. Thank you Marie!!
If you are new at this like I am, then I strongly suggest getting this book. Marie walks you throught the entire process. And, if you email Marie, she will answer all of your questions (if you still have any after reading her book) and she will add your property on her website too.
 Not worth the $20 for this short and shallow book December 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
at $20 for this short book I would recommend you look elsewhere. I was VERY disappointed by the lack of useful content in the book.
The author's 'expertise' in this field is that she owns ONE vacation rental in New Hampshire, so as you might expect, her recommendations are specifically tailored to that experience and situation. There is virtually nothing in this book that would be considered truly interesting information as I suspect everything could be found online.
I wrote a prior review on this book and did not have a good alternative book to recommend. Fortunately I do now.
How to Rent Vacation Properties By Owner, but Christine Hrib Karpinski. It is about 300 pages long and in my review of it so far it appears to have a number of useful details. It easily covers anything in the "Breaking all the rules" book but with useful information and insight.
Before buying this book, I would suggest you check out the other one as well, read the reviews (significantly more of them for that book) and the author bios.
One final comparison, and perhaps not a fair one, but intended to provide another example of the difference in quality of these two books.
Both books have a forward included. For the OTHER book, it is written by some long-term journalist covering real estate. For THIS book, it was written by the author's cleaning woman (yes, I am serious). Nothing against this nice woman, but I cannot imagine she has a not of useful insights for me on how to rent my property other than that it should be clean.
Hope this helps. I don't like to dump on books or authors because I know it takes a lot of time and energy to write and publish a book, but this one unfortunately deserves to be noted because at $20 it is unfair to buyers/readers.
 Immediate response to request granted, Nice Work! June 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read nearly every book out there on Vacation Rentals, and I found this one to be very straight forward ad easy reading. I have been in the business for 10 years, so most of this information is excellent particularly if you are new in the buisness.
I had a bit of a problem trying to retrieve my "free guest book" from the author's website, and as soon as she was aware of this, she contacted me directly and help me achieve my goal immediately.
I have listed my vacation rental on the author's site and will look forward to taking any bookings that come in as a result of this completely free advertising.
After communicating with Marie, I can see why she is successful, she is a great "problem solver" Way to go, Marie!
Warmest aloha,
Ilona Coffey
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bch-clb@aloha.net
kauaivacationvillas@yahoo.com
Breaking all the rules - How to rent your vacation home June 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Marie Ferguson's book was a great help, and gave me lots of ideas on renting my villa in Florida. I also purchased her Vacation Rental Organizer. It's nice to have all my information on my villa in one place.
This was VERY Helpful and made my renting a success March 12, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Breaking all the Rules: How to Rent Your Vacation Home: A New, Innovative - Rent by Owner -Tool for Preparing, Managing, Advertising & Maintaining Your Rental & Free Welcome Book & Property Listing
I bought this book and let me say my first year of renting was a huge success and It was easy !
This book takes you from start to finish! Easy Read and Easy to follow samples of contracts etc.
Thank you Marie for writing it! It has made my life alot simpler with renting!
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