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Originally Posted by asianthree
yes there are some who check the wrong box when first starting out,(pool) but most owners live here or have a home watch person who takes care of the check-in and out and stops by weekly to see how they are doing. Two bad posts out of over a 1000 homes for rent is not a bad ratio. Using the wrong property manager can be your biggest nightmare for you and your home. you will find many who swear by thevillages4rent and their homewatch person, who watches homes like they were their own[/QUOTE/
I don't know if you have an interest in the 4rent company, but you can't dismiss stuff by simply saying someone "checked the wrong box". Intentional or not, it's FRADULENT for owners to list amenities they don't have. Homes with pools rent for more than those which do not. What does the renter do if they show up and there is no pool? And it's obvious the website does no oversight to verify with owners that their homes ARE AS advertised. And the fact that this website will not advertise homes which have a property manager invites problems for prospective renters. What does the renter do about questions and problems if the owner's living or vacationing elsewhere?
I rent my home when I'm not there. I have a terrific property manager who handles every detail, and is FULLY LICENSED. This GUARANTEES the renter recourse if anything is out of order from the date of reservation to the prompt return of the security deposit. Independent owners who rent are NOT licensed, so guests with problems are on their own.
I am proud of the fact that I can rent my home and be certain that my guests have everything they need. It's great to get rave reviews in our guestbook, and to have a full calendar of reservations.
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no investment in thevillages4rent, and the fully licensed property manager who DID handle my home had $1800 dollars worth of my property taken from my home, left the home so filthy that we had to have our own cleaning company come in for 6 hours to clean the dirt in the tubs the food left in the fridge from renter that had left 2 months earlier. It was finally admitted that they forgot to check the house after the renters left,( got an email every week that the house was fine, just forgot to stop there) so i no longer use a Fully Licensed company, not saying that there are not good companies out there but i am not the only person who had big problems with a company. My homewatch person cares for my home like her own, our guest have everything they need and the best thing i can say is all of my guests have bought their own homes because they love it here, and they now use my homewatch person, because she was one of the best features of our home, I don't use a guestbook, because we see all of our guest every time we come down, we are rented for the next three years from friends of people who have stayed at our home.