Barefoot Technologies Blog- Vacation Rental Industry News

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Finns and Vacation Rentals By Aki Uola

New Trends In Vacation Rental Carter to Pet Friendly Crowd

Barefoot Technologies is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Adam Zippin and Aki Uola.  Adam is a recent graduate of New England College (NEC) and Aki is in his senior year there.  These two men join the Barefoot team to help with portal projects, database cleanup, and to help keep Barefoot Moving Forward.

Barefoot Announces Two New Employees 

August 17- Henniker NH– Barefoot has promoted Carl Stephenson to our team as Business Development Manager. Carl brings over 5 years of experience in the vacation rental industry, most recently with Instant Software. His focus of development has been in the major resort areas of the US, Western Canada, and the Hawaiian Islands.

USAResortRentals.com (USARR) has just announced its partnership with Revelation Consultancy LLC in order to maintain and update their website.  This recent move was made in to allow USARR to expand its offerings to its customers as well as to create more brand awareness.

With the summer winding down, Canadians have flocked to vacation rentals from Coast to Coast. The Canadian vacation rental market took a huge leap forward this summer season both in terms of popularity and ease of booking.

The National Board of Realtors (NAR) on August 3^rd provided some new purchasing statistics comparing people who are purchasing investment property compared to vacation rental property.  There are some great statistics in this short article in particular the vacation rental buyer average distance from their vacation home is 375 miles, which is a drop from the last few years. This may be because of increased fuel prices, but I think it has to do more with people taking shorter vacations and long weekends and that is just about the edge what I would consider what one will drive for a long weekend.  Most important about this number is in reference to those who are considering doing for rent by owner.  If the home is rented on a daily or weekly basis this number is significant.