JTVRs

Joined June 2018
385 posts
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General Chat » Service Animals - the two questions

So, today, I had a person text about a 2 bedroom apartment I had for (longterm) rent. She asked what the monthly pet fee I charged was. I asked her what kind of animal (11 year old shnorkie??) - we…

(Posted Apr 18, 2019 8:28 PM)

General Help and Questions » Interesting from homeaway forum ... Expanded network

What is the Expanded Distribution Network? Expanded Distribution puts vacation rental listings in front of travelers who might not have considered a vacation rental. HomeAway believes that by growin…

(Posted Apr 12, 2019 10:35 AM)

General Help and Questions » Guest communications

Airbnb and HomeAway have a chat/text-based communication only with clients thru their system. When using ownerrez hosted websites, is there a way to do that with direct book customers? I actually pr…

(Posted Apr 11, 2019 8:44 AM)

General Chat » Providing Linens for a rustic rental

Why don't you put in a stacking washer/dryer? It may be less of a headache than other workarounds

(Posted Apr 9, 2019 10:49 AM)

General Help and Questions » Copy Reviews onto HomeAway/Vrbo

Why would they let someone transfer non-OTA reviews to an OTA? That seems like it would be ripe for abuse

(Posted Apr 5, 2019 8:20 PM)

General Help and Questions » Google direct booking

This is excerpts from someone (2017) that seem to apply to the Google Vac Rental effort. Little dated, but: "a Google card will be required for each vacation rental. Vacation rental managers can ge…

(Posted Apr 5, 2019 8:12 PM)

General Help and Questions » Google direct booking

I would have sworn there was a recent post on Google's new direct booking for hotels, but cannot find. And they are also working on a VR equivalent. Anyway, this was on a bed and breakfast owners f…

(Posted Apr 4, 2019 3:18 PM)

General Chat » Paypal no longer refunding fees on refunds

Doesn't surprise me, but I am not sure that a legitimate business should be largely dependent on PayPal. I have heard good and bad about people using them for business. I heard HomeAway (sorry, ver…

(Posted Apr 2, 2019 7:38 PM)

General Help and Questions » Correct way to handle vacation rental payments in Quickbooks (not integrated with OR) ?

Reading through this makes me think you should talk to a CPA to set yourself up. Several items look like a possible lack of understanding of VR accounting. Taxes etc are not automatically like other…

(Posted Apr 2, 2019 7:26 PM)

Feature Requests » Social Media links on Ownerrez hosted website

In addition, does hosted website have abity to hook to bookings via fb, Instagram, etc. ( besides just something like include your website link)

(Posted Mar 31, 2019 11:21 AM)

General Help and Questions » What's on the OwnerRez roadmap?

I was thinking IPO 😊

(Posted Mar 31, 2019 11:20 AM)

General Help and Questions » Advice blog on using booking. Com

Read this today, pretty useful http://blog.uplisting.io/the-ultimate-guide-to-hosting-on-booking-com/

(Posted Mar 30, 2019 7:48 AM)

General Chat » Providing Streaming TV

I plan to have Playstation Vue on 1 TV in each apt. But the free apps on all tvs. Showing people how to effectively cut the cord is going to be part of my shtick. Some have heard of it, but not know …

(Posted Mar 28, 2019 11:21 PM)

General Help and Questions » Triggers?

How do you make the default (non custom) templates work? As in going out when something happens?

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 1:07 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rumour has it - google launched Gogle vacation rentals

Ebay has a minor presence in vacation rentals. Just spent a few minutes last week looking. There seems to be B&B, hotel, and VR variations For example: https://www.ebay.com/b/Vacation-Rental-Travel…

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 1:01 PM)

General Help and Questions » Triggers?

I am now trying to work my templates and triggers. But I am baffled that triggers don't seem to let me work with the existing templates? 1) I am here: https://app.ownerrez.com/triggers/add 2) I …

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 9:04 PM)

Blog » Deep Thoughts on Security Deposits and Insurance

True. But the ARDI coverage here is $20 for $1000. This is $29 for $10,000 plus a lot of other stuff. HomeAway is trying to get people to elect $49 pdp. This is much better compared to that.

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 12:27 PM)

General Chat » Providing Streaming TV

Yea, with satellite it's tough. Streaming only makes sense in fast internet, which we have. I can handle 20 TVs with their fastest service. Service wise, they shouldn't have to worry about the fire s…

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 12:23 PM)

Feature Requests » Interesting feature of competitor

I don't know if works. Only way may be free trial of a competitor? Is there a way for you to test the idea? I am not live yet, so cannot tell. I am wondering if the pricing updates of priceLabs m…

(Posted Mar 23, 2019 9:26 AM)

Feature Requests » Interesting feature of competitor

I won't say who, but they send out a signal to the OTA for each property, that auto updates the last time the profile was updated. It makes it look like you changed it and it supposedly pushes your l…

(Posted Mar 22, 2019 9:48 PM)