One key to effective vacation-rental advertising is using as few sites as possible. You want to maximize bookings while minimizing the number of listings you have to create and maintain. That's just one of the insights you'll find in this article.

People would rather look than read. Particularly in the vacation-rental market. Which is why you must  pay special attention to your pictures. That means either hiring a professional photographer or at least getting some professional advice. We discuss both options in this article.

No one ever lost a booking by providing prospective guests with too many pictures. That’s why the introduction of dozens of photo-sharing Web sites has been such a boon to VR owners. This article shows you how to use those sites to provide your prospects with an entire album of photos of your property.

When it comes to vacation rentals, the more photos you can show, the better. The trouble is, most online advertising sites limit the number of photos you can show in your vacation-rental listings.

This article shows you how to combine two or more images into a single JPG file that will count as one photo. Thus saving you money, of course.

In the book, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," the late Douglas Adams writes that "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea." We feel the same way about creating a Web site for your vacation-rental property. Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. And you'll make a lot of prospective renters mad if you don't do it right.

Getting the key to your vacation-rental property into the hands of your guests in time—and getting it back again at the end of the rental—has always been a challenge. This article presents several low-hassle, low-cost ways to solve that problem.

Scenario: It's 90 degrees. Your guests have opened all the windows. They have set the thermostat at 65 degrees and left for the day. This happened to us. It could happen to you.

As the vacation-rental option grows in popularity among both owners and travelers, some locals are pushing for rental bans. This article will tell you what to look for and how to cope.