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Renting Vacation Villa Direct from homeowner: How it Works
Renting vacation home for your vacation is nothing new. Millions of vacationers are cutting out the middle man (travel agency, management company, travel search engines) and saving money by renting directly from owner.
Vacationers that have not used Villa4Vacation.com before, or are new to buying or renting vacation properties directly from the owners can use following guidelines for help.
Please also review Frequently Asked Questions
Why Rent Direct from Owner?
Vacation Villa Rental vs. a Hotel Room
- Most private vacation homes offer 4-5 times more space than you will find in the typical hotel room often at smaller nightly rate. Typical hotel room is 200 SF.; most of rental properties are between 1,000-4,000 SF.
- Vacation rental homes often contain many personal & convenience items that will increase the comfort of the guest. This is truly home away from home concept.
- Unlike a typical hotel room, most private vacation homes include fully equipped kitchen and private laundry.
- Homeowners are often able to provide you with tips and suggestions that only the locals know. This can make a huge difference in the enjoyment of your trip.
- Most of vacation villas are used frequently by their owners and kept very clean for this reason. No one gives a property more attention than its owner
- Renting a private vacation villa offers the great value, affordability, and personal attention by homeowner.
Heard enough? Click here to find the villa for your next vacation.
Please also review Frequently Asked Questions
Finding a vacation villa
Please Use the Search Function to find properties for rent or for sale, we list all the properties in the country specified in order based on your search criteria. You can sort the search results by the Price or number of Bedrooms.
» Search for Villa for Rent
» Search for Home to Purchase
Bookmarking Desired Properties
During browsing through the advertised homes, you will see a 6-digit reference number for each property. You can easily visit the page of the property again by typing the reference number directly into the Search box.
Individual villas can also be bookmarked or you can print paper copies of each.
Contacting the Owner
The contact details (email, telephone, etc) of the property owner or their agent appears in the CONTACT OWNER section of each property along with other details on booking the property - please read these thoroughly.
To enquire about a rental property simply use booking enquiry form
Booking
Each property owner will have their own way of processing a booking but, as a guideline, you should expect to pay a deposit to secure the booking dates of about 20% of the total rental. This is normally paid either by Credit Card, PayPal or by bank transfer and the owner should confirm the booking and receipt of your payment by letter or by e-mail. The balance is normally paid around 60 days before the arrival.
Getting to the Property
Make sure that you have the address, directions to the vacation villa and phone number for the owner or management company. These are normally sent to you on payment of the balance. Some owners will send you a key in advance; some may live on site and be there to welcome you, and some. May have a local management company who will meet you (in this case please make sure that you have the telephone number of the owner or their representative so that you can call to let them know if your arrival time is delayed).
Problems
Quick Facts about Vacation Rental Properties vs. typical hotel rooms
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Quick Facts about Vacation Rental Properties vs. typical hotel rooms
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Typical Hotel |
Vacation Villa, Condo |
| Local, Long Distance and International calls |
Extremely high rates are applied (from 50 cents per call to $2 per minute) |
Standard Long distance rates, sometimes free in USA |
| Kitchen |
NO |
YES |
| Private washer and
dryer |
NO |
YES |
| Multiple floor space |
No |
YES, in townhomes and villas |
| Private patio with
Conservation view |
NO |
YES, in townhomes and villas |
| Television |
Just 1 TV with pay-per view service |
Usually TV in every room, DVD, Sony PlayStation |
| Home like
Atmosphere |
NO |
YES |
| Heated Pool |
May Be |
Very Often |
| Safe kids playground |
NO |
Very often in Resort Areas |
| Nightly Rate |
$100-$500> |
$60-$300 usually |
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Opportunity basis.
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