Hi Cindy, We use, or used, vacationrentals.com even before HA took them over - they were tops...now it's like someone flipped the 'off' switch? We use vacationrentals411.com - zero results, valuevacations rentals.com - little to no resilts - not worth the fee, flipkey.com (a partner of tripadvisor.com - little results, but worth the fee. We've also tried Google search placement which we found costly and not effective. We are fortunate that  our condo complex has a free listing website and does fair. Although so slow and behind in tech, we find HA has had the best results. Do you find it slow? Have you searched your own place on HA as a possible renter would?

We did terrible in 09, better, but not great in 10, and very decent this year. As the economy gets bad or good, so do our 2 condos.

Thanks for the email, nice talking to you,

Jim

www.oceanside101.com 

www.oceanside302.com    

Over  3 minutes loading time for 1 salendar update? I almost gave up, I am sure if I were searching for a rental I would have moved on. Weekends on the HA site are the oworst (slowest loading) - I'm sorry but it's been a very long term issue. I ask other owners and HA staff to do a search for their own, or a random, property from the HA homepage. I would like to stay with HA but know potential inquiers will not wait for page after page. Jim 

Are flipkey.com and tripadvisor.com 2 different rental sites?

July 3: 30 seconds to load after clicking 'calendar'. another 30 seconds to load calendar update. 1 minute to load 1 update for 1 peoperty. 2, 3, 4 updates for multiple properties? Most other sites update instantly.

1 minute 30 seconds to find my city's rentals from HA homepage - not terrible, it's been slower. In todays 'instant gratification' world...how long will a perspective renter wait before moveing on?

 Jim