How Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) Uses New Technology to Rent Vacation Homes

New York, New York (PRWEB) July 04, 2011

How Rent My Vacation Home rents summer vacation homes: It's never been easier to rent out the weeks that a vacation home is vacant. Vacation home owners can join this service for a short time for free with coupon "july4 ".

Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) -- For vacationers, there's an affordable, comfortable and convenient alternative to booking a hotel room, it's renting a whole house.

And for owners of those vacation homes, renting their excess weeks out for profit have never been easier.

See 70,000 vacation homes for rent now on 83 website with one click. Ideally, it's a win-win for both parties; owners make some extra bucks and vacationers get more for their money.

Mr. Jay Kalin, CEO of http://www.RentMyVacationHome.com and a authority on vacation home rental with 25 years experience, and a innovator of online market places for vacation home rentals, "The average traveler thinks that vacation homes are expensive to rent, but the vast majority of the homes available are reasonable." Reasonable means within the $ 100 to $ 300 a night peak season range. Off peak, a nice place might be $ 100 to $ 200 a night.

As for the owner, Kalin says "a recent poll Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) clients revealed that the average weekly rate they received in rentals came to $ 1,707 and nearly half the respondents said their homes are occupied about 20 weeks per year. That suggests that an average owner could expect to bring in more than $ 34,000 in revenue a year."

Big market vacation homes do not sell:

During the past decade many of Americans bought vacation homes. Nearly 38 percent of all single family home purchases are for second homes. Most were bought primarily as investments but about a third of the purchases were as vacation homes.

Hundreds of thousands of vacation properties are available for short-term rentals. Rent My Vacation Home, alone has more than 70,000 properties available in the USA on 83 websites it owns. These often have many bargains for cost-conscious consumers.

Here's an example:

A beautiful three-bedroom, three-bath 2,297 square foot house in Orlando, Florida or California with one king-size bed and two queens, cable television and video library, stereo, fireplace, barbecue and more costs all of $ 1,546 a week, any season.

Compare that with a decent hotel in town, which will cost at least $ 150 a night per room - $ 2,465 a week. And hotel rooms don't have the extras that make a home rental even more of a deal and that add to the pleasure of vacationing.

For instance, these homes boast full kitchens and offer barbecue grills; families save big money by eating in and shareing costs.

Plus, there are often things to do around the house itself. In a hotel room, there's a television and that's that, but many vacation rentals have stereos, DVD players, game rooms, pool tables and other family-friendly diversions.

"I've found that people who stay in private homes don't feel as compelled to cram in every touristy activity in town," says Kalin. "They relax, which is what a vacation should be about."

But for some vacationers it takes a leap of faith for some people to rent a house on line, sight otherwise unseen.

That is why Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) insures every vacation on their web sites.

"Does the property really exist? Is it as represented? These are some of the questions vacationers ask themselves," Kalin says.

His advice for the faint of heart is to take several steps to reassure themselves that the rental will go off as planned: Like using Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) that insures the home from being a scam and accepts credit cards for payment on line with travelers insurance

Talk to the owners directly. That will establish them as responsive individuals.

Ask specific questions. Know what you're looking for in a vacation home and make sure the house has those referrals from customers. If the answer is vague or non-committal, move on to the next listing.

Examine the photos. Only consider rentals where you can see pictures of all the important rooms - each bedroom, kitchen and living room.

Make sure and pay with a credit card and get the Travel Guard insurance in case you have to cancel. Then, if the property is a scam Rent My Vacation Home will refund your money,

Rent My Vacation Home has a strict two strikes policy. After a property is the subject of two justified complaints, it is removed from Rent My Vacation Home . Even one complaint, if blatant enough, can be grounds for removal.

What owners should know :

For owners who want to rent out properties there are many places to list their properties but they don't have the credit card checkout and warranty built in. Kalin has advice for owners: "Use the credit card system that is set up with travel guard and make sure and take credit cards, it is included with your free membership. This will enable the vacationer to book the room just like they would a hotel. There is no difference making the reservation on Rent My Vacation Home or at a major hotel chain.The owners who do this rent 50 percent more than the ones who do not."

According to Kalin, who rents out a couple of vacation homes he owns, "Owners have few problems renting out their properties in markets like California, Florida, Hawaii and North and South Carolina." He says that most guests are very respectful of the properties and Rent My Vacation Home (RMVH) warranty the stay against damage as well with Travel Guard.

For more info call 1-800-699-RMVH.

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Ninth Annual San Francisco Cleantech Forum Opens March 14th, Exploring How Data and Information Technology will Drive the Future Cleantech Economy

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 8, 2011

The ninth annual Cleantech Forum San Francisco, hosted by Cleantech Group, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel March 14-16, 2011. The longest-running and largest annual assembly of global leaders of the clean technology sector, Cleantech Forum San Francisco will unite corporate executives, investors, startups and policy makers to explore the expanding opportunities and critical challenges at the nexus of cleantech and information technology (IT). More than 700 clean technology leaders from over twenty-five countries and thirty-five states have already registered to attend the forum.

As the industrys most recognized clean technology gathering, Cleantech Forum San Francisco is the flagship event produced by Cleantech Group, the leading global provider of business intelligence for companies and investors focusing on clean technology. The focus of this years Cleantech Forum San Francisco is From Data to Impact: How Technology will Drive the Cleantech Economy. Featuring more than 50 distinguished speakers, including keynotes from Jonathan Silver, Executive Director of the DOEs Loan Programs Office, John Denniston of KPCB, Pioneer and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the forum will convene the industries top executives for a series of dynamic discussions on how the adoption of data and measurement technologies will provide the foundation for substantial growth and investment opportunities throughout the cleantech sector.

Cleantech Group has closely followed the cleantech investment landscape for the past decade and has continues to expand the depth and breadth of our Analyst expertise. We feel quite uniquely positioned to provide insights on the convergence of IT and clean technology, said Sheeraz Haji, CEO, Cleantech Group. Cleantech Forum San Francisco highlights tomorrows investment strategies as the ability to collect, communicate and analyze vast new streams of data present both challenges and opportunities that impact cleantech deployments.

Over the course of three days, attendees at Cleantech Forum San Francisco will attend interactive panel discussions and CEO presentations, participate in roundtable industry breakout sessions and network with hundreds of industry influencers. The Cleantech Forum also will offer the following unique exhibits and insights opportunities:

The Deals Just Keep On Closing for Atlanta Technology Angels

Atlanta (PRWEB) September 20, 2011

The Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) and its members recently completed several new deals, including funding (or participating in funding) Verdeeco, TripLingo and Brightwhistle. ATAs goal is to help build these portfolio companies into thriving enterprises.

We are thrilled to announce these new financings and to have the opportunity to partner and participate with companies of this caliber, says Mike Eckert, ATAs executive chairman. ATA is enjoying its best deal flow in several years, and we look forward to working on several more.

Committed to helping steward the companies in which its members invest, ATA works closely with their entrepreneurs and management teams. In fact, several members of ATA are on Verdeecos board of directors and helped lead the companys financing. Knowing that ATA was the lead investor on this opportunity, other angel groups in the Southeast participated.

Through their years of experience in running successful businesses, ATAs members have brought more than just capital to the company, adds M.K. Khan, CEO of Verdeeco. They continue to serve as the management teams advisers, mentors, and committed partners keeping the company focused on both short-term objectives and long-term strategy.

In addition, ATA members investment in Brightwhistle, a deal led by Hamilton Ventures, represents an ongoing trend of partnering with venture capital (VC) and private equity firms to finance promising companies. For example, ATA also partnered with TechOperators, a well-known VC in Atlanta that is also an ATA member, in a financing HireIQ Solutions earlier this year.

Weve found the level of professionalism and added value in co-investing with ATA to be refreshing. It is doing a great job of addressing a vital need in the local technology community, says Glenn McGonnigle, General Partner of TechOperators, in reference to working with Devon Wijesinghe, ATA board member and lead investor for ATA on the HireIQ deal.

One of the reasons we like to work with ATA is that it has its finger on the pulse of the Atlanta startup scene, and Brightwhistle is a great example. The ability to aggregate ATA resources helped get this deal done, adds Jamie Hamilton, an ATA member who also runs Hamilton Ventures. The value derived from being a part of ATA, both to entrepreneurs and angel investors, is incalculable. Since becoming a member, I have had the chance to be involved in very exciting companies.

TripLingo is another exciting company that ATA has supportedin the earliest stages. This language translation firm created a cell phone app to help busy travelers learn languages on the go. It was only six months old when Richard Spencer, board director of ATA, stepped in to help lead its successful financing.

I invested in TripLingo because it has a smart, creative team addressing a specific need in a fragmented market. But I also thought, If they could do that in a matter of a few months, what else could they do in this field? notes Spencer. I like the people, I like the product, and I like the promise of whats to come.

That promise of whats to come is what drives ATA to fund and help such companies reach their potential. They have completed four additional follow-on financings this year, bringing the total of completed deals to eight. Many more are in the works.

About Atlanta Technology Angels:

The Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) is an investment group, founded in 1998, that invests in early stage technology companies based in Georgia. ATA is an active source of private capital and business experience for local technology entrepreneurs.

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