Homes For Exchange: How to Swap your holiday vacation home
June 1st, 2009Why not make best use of your holiday vacation home? You rent it and obtain income but have you ever considered swapping to allow you to spend time in other parts of the world for FREE?!!
VIPvillas.com have a holiday vaction home exchange system that is unique to them. With Villas on four continents and the website being free to list it is experiencing heavy demand for this new service. Many ‘swap’ websites only allow mutual swaps between owners but VIP can facilitate multi-way swaps to ensure you maximise your chances of a successful holiday-home swap. Here is how it works:
Private holiday home owners join the site for free and indicate a preference to swap their home for others also listed on the site.
The rental price is identified and you are given ‘credits’ in line with what a home of your description charges to rent.
If an owner comes and stays in your holiday vacation home you are awarded further credits, increasing your total.
This allows you to build up credits to then stay in a home in another part of the world that rents for more than yours per week or for a longer period. It’s as simple as 1,2,3!
The system has only just launched and the first swaps have already taken place. Managing director, Andy Parr, is pleased with the early take up. “Being a relatively new system you would expect a slow take up to start but owners have quickly realised that the site is free to list. They’re taking advantage of the swap system to holiday at other owner’s homes around the world at places that previously they would not have been able to go to. We list the very best properties and with our unique multi-swap system the difficulties in finding a suitable property and then having the owners happy with yours are immediately removed. Owners can let people stay in their home and VIP administer a credit system so the holidaying owner gets credits reduced and the owner who is facilitating the stay gets credits awarded. Its as simple as that! We envisage some owners saving their credits and then staying in real luxury homes and enjoying the high life; it’s another way to leverage value out of your holiday home investment.”
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Andy has been involved in the travel industry for nearly 25 years and he see’s the explosion in privately owned holiday homes as a major development. “There are huge volumes of homes that go throughout the year lying empty. Why not take advantage of your home and either rent or swap it to make owning a home abroad much more enjoyable and allow you to see more of the world?”
VIPvillas.com can be contacted on 0044 (0)8458 621 384
