Who We Are: A .com company that specializes in finding short term rentals for both tenants and property owners. In short, as a free service to renters, whether you, your family or your company are in search of short or long term, luxury or economy, furnished or unfurnished, shortermrentals.com is the fastest, most effective way to find a new home.

Why Do Tenants Like Us: Because they can often find just the rental they are looking for right on our website without spending countless hours driving all over town looking at properties. Once they've narrowed their search to one or more properties; prospective tenants can do a drive by to view the actual neighborhood and amenities that the property offers."

Why Do Property Owners Like Us: Simply put, our site provides practically everything for the property owner, from finding the customer with our extensive advertising and internet marketing programs, screening the customer, providing the contract (right on our website) to making sure the rest of the details get done; including the rental fee, the deposit, checking and cleaning the property! Though we do a fairly nice job keeping their seasonal rentals booked; we do an even better job the other nine months of the year; when many properties often sit empty!

For a one time fee of $199 (about what they would pay for one or two weekend ads in the newspaper) landlords can have their property beautifully presented on our website forever, only paying commission when we deliver a qualifed tenant to them! Plus, by showing their property on our site, we eliminate their having to make countless appointments and trips out to show their property, great for absentee owner/investors!

To see what a value our one time fee is, compare it to Vacation Rentals By Owner.com who charges $249 annually! Though they are the largest in the world, check out their site at vrbo.com!) they actually have a disclaimer for all monies paid to any of their property owners on their site! We not only guarantee payment; when necessary, all hands on contract work, rental fee collection and other forms of property management are handled by licensed Florida Realtors using official FARBAR contracts!

Who Are Our Tenants: Our tenants are often seniors who have purchased new homes in Florida and have either had an opportunity to sell their home up north a little early or who have found out that their builder will be a little late delivering their new home. This situation of course also applies to many others who find themselves in need of a "bridge the gap" home during the regular course of buying and selling a home. Often, we have couples who come down for a few months to shop for a new home and we also serve many seasonal as well as week or two week vacationers.

Who Are Our Property Owners: Usually they are homeowners who have found it profitable to rent out their homes in the months they don't use it. Just as often they are investors who have either purchased rental property or have kept their first home purchase to use as a rental, after buying a larger home.

What Are Our Commission Rates: We charge 15% for annuals, 20% for seasonal. When it comes to the shorter term rentals our rates go up commensurate with the monthly rental fee. We charge 20% for 6 month or longer rentals, 25% for 3 to 5 month rentals, and 30% for one or two month rentals. It's important to note that these higher commission rates for the shorter term rentals are naturally based on higher monthly rates, netting the homeowner more income too; since these shorter term tenants know that there is a premium for furnished and shorter term rental properties.

Do property owners have to sign a contract to have their property shown on our site?

Answer: No, we don't need any contracts; we don't want to cut you out, we want to help you out! Property owners can rent their own property or have others do it for them with no obligation to us at all. We only make our commission when we find you a qualifed tenant!

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