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Joined June 2018
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Blog » Deep Thoughts on Security Deposits and Insurance

$29 is the lowest. That is for a 3-day booking. But again, it includes 10,000 property damage with only $100 deductible. And it provides $100,000 liability and building coverage. And it does a backgr…

(Posted Mar 22, 2019 9:44 PM)

General Help and Questions » Smart Lock Generation Codes

I do not plan (when I start) to let the codes to my smartlock go to any guest until check-in. There is a national scam going on I read recently where people pretend to be guests, get the code and th…

(Posted Mar 21, 2019 9:13 PM)

Blog » Deep Thoughts on Security Deposits and Insurance

For $29 (3 day booking) , the safelystay I mentioned in other post gives you $10,000 in contents coverage with $100 deductible, $100,000 of liability and building damage coverage, and does a backgrou…

(Posted Mar 19, 2019 11:43 AM)

General Help and Questions » Questions about Email Templates & Triggers

So you don't do any predefined triggers as I said in 1) above?

(Posted Mar 19, 2019 11:38 AM)

General Chat » Providing Streaming TV

This is scary! Exactly what I am working on this week. Part of my reason for streaming, is antennas don't work here and I have a lot of units. Consider researching a bulk package from Dish TV. It …

(Posted Mar 19, 2019 10:06 AM)

General Help and Questions » Questions about Email Templates & Triggers

I am mostly interested in using Email Templates & Triggers to handle bookings from OTAs, and from my hosted website. Not planning to do quotes (as of this time). Questions: 1) I am in Settings > T…

(Posted Mar 17, 2019 9:06 PM)

General Help and Questions » How do we test everything --> emails & triggers / erental locks / agreement / hosted website / payment(s) / deposit / etc?

OK I would like to test everything I have set up, to see what clients see, etc. I realize I cannot really test something like airbnb/HA yet, but I would like to do a complete booking cycle for one …

(Posted Mar 17, 2019 8:32 PM)

General Help and Questions » Eric Moeller

One of the speakers is from wheelhouse, the dynamic pricing company

(Posted Mar 15, 2019 11:29 AM)

General Help and Questions » Eric Moeller

This copied from his email. I did last year. He brought like 20 VR authors and company leaders online last year, eg, NoiseAware. I did them all. VERY educational. Honestly, I was not interested i…

(Posted Mar 14, 2019 2:55 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

"If you get onto the HomeAway API integration," This sounds like a shoe is to drop somewhere... Will it cost extra (such as on OR)? Are there limitations to get in? Does it require some kind of M…

(Posted Mar 13, 2019 6:46 PM)

General Help and Questions » Eric Moeller

Would it be stepping over the line to alert people to three free days of webinars from vacation rental industry experts? It is free, and I did this last year. And I didn't sign up for any paid versio…

(Posted Mar 12, 2019 9:51 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

[quote=Paul W]You can actually use them for HomeAway if you are able to join our upcoming, looming, awesome API integration with HomeAway. The users that are on that get to use their own CC payment …

(Posted Mar 12, 2019 9:19 PM)

General Help and Questions » Email Templates

In templates and places where Maps are used for Property Addresses, wouldn't it be a good idea to include Apple Maps? I don't use it myself, but... Currently shows: Address: {PADDRM} Open this add…

(Posted Mar 12, 2019 6:58 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

Talked to Lynbrook today. Nice people, VR specialists. I told him my focus was not the cheapest price. And obviously you cannot use them for Airbnb and the HomeAway family because they use their own…

(Posted Mar 12, 2019 5:05 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

Didn't mean to hijack the thread, but Blue's pain with openedge is how I feel I have gone to 3 independent agencies. Nationwide is looking promising. They had much better deal than cbiz (much high…

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 7:26 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

I am going thru hell trying to get a new VR ins policy for two diff buildings Cbiz won't do my multifamily. What, you mean there's a common hallway? We can't do that. There is only one exit from th…

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 5:25 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

Online transactions like vacation rentals, especially card not present, are probably in the high risk category. Think Lynbrook specialized in VRs. Maybe openedge not. This kind of stuff may only get …

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 5:14 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

I filled out the lynnbrook form like 3 weeks ago, and they never got back to me!

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 1:36 PM)

General Help and Questions » Website designed by OwnerRez

This is from the support page, good place to start https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/hosted-websites

(Posted Mar 10, 2019 9:24 PM)

General Help and Questions » Contact Us form

I tried to use a contact us form, but got error messages that was not a proper email. I used two different emails, and I can guarantee they were proper form. I took screenshots, but this shouldn't b…

(Posted Mar 8, 2019 10:50 AM)