Owners Blog

VRMA Executive Summit Recently, Jabin, PROACTIVE Vacations Owner, and Greg, Our Property Manager, attended the VRMA (Vacation Rental Managers Association) Executive Summit. During this experience, 2021 rental trends and 2022 rental predictions were at the forefront of discussion. PROACTIVE Vacations, as a company, is dedicated to staying on top of the vacation rentals market and keeping you informed every step of the way. What Is VRMA? VRMA is the Vacation...

Professional Real Estate Photography In the saturated short-term and vacation rental market around the world, often an item overlooked are the property images. Property owners may get overwhelmed with bookings, cleanings, prepping the home for guests, or more from what seems like a never ending to-do list to get the property live and rented. However, from Airbnb to VRBO and everywhere in-between, it’s hard to ignore when a listing has...

What We’ve Seen As we began 2021, many questions were going through our minds about what kind of year it was going to be after 2020.  Bookings were a little slow in the first couple of weeks with everything that was going on post election and a surge in coronavirus cases.  As vaccines started to roll out and politics begin to settle, bookings started coming in.  Since mid January, bookings...

What is RevMax? At the close of 2020 PROACTIVE upgraded our management and booking platform with Streamline.  For those that don’t know, Streamline is the premier management system for vacation property rentals.  With the upgrade, we included a pricing tool called RevMax.  We started experimenting with this on a few of our properties in January this year and then added a few more in February.  We are still learning, but...