One of the top trends in recent times is to rent a room or part of a house for a short amount of time to tourists, students or workers.

It is an easy way to have an extra income with low effort.

If you live in a beautiful area full of things to see and do, it will be obviously easier, as tourists are always looking for inexpensive places where they can see the real lifestyle of people and travel/feel like a local.

Even in a town with less appeal you can always receive a profit from an extra room: if there are vendor meetings and trade fairs in your area, there will be people looking for a quiet and warm place to stay instead of an anonymous and lonely motel room.

But If you'd like to see real rewards, ask yourself some easy question first...

Is there a real demand of short term (vacation or not) rentals in your area?

Did you say "yes"? Ok, go for the second one!

Is it worth it? Or would it be more suited as a long-term rental?

The answer is not simple: if you want to earn money with short term rentals, you have to plan a good marketing strategy to promote your place; if you don't want to deal with it, either ask an agency to do this for you or simply switch to a more traditional long term rental.

If you are interested to meet lots of new people and get in touch with different ways of life while earning money, well... Vacation rental business is for you!

The best source of people looking for an accomodation is, obviously, every place on the Internet where you can advertise. You can start using free listings on general classifieds websites, but you'll gain the most targeted audience (and the biggest part of your earnings) from online booking websites.

Some of them are very famous and well-renowned, but there are many that only list places from one country or city and they are also good places to place an ad.

In most cases, they will charge you a small fee for every booking you obtain from them: you will pay only for the business you make, without wasting money on old-fashioned advertising which you'll never know the ROI.

If you are ready to start, please let us know... We're always happy to see new places to visit!