Vacation income property website recommendations?

[Mike R.]

I have had a successful rental property in Big Bear, CA. since April 2014- averaging over 200 nights a year rented. I'm using the usual places: AirBnB, Flipkey and VRBO but was thinking of setting up my own web site as well. I see there are places like WebChalet that do it for you for $10 to $15 a month. Has a anyone tried any of these or had someone build you a site? 

[William Stokes]

For one property, I would look into more of a landing page site instead of a full blown website. It'll be cheaper in most cases. Vrbo and Airbnb will always be your best sources for generating leads (sadly). But a website is good so you can advertise your home on social media and bring people directly to your property instead of them comparing you with the masses of the listing sites. I'm not familiar with webchalet, but i would recommend you go with a one & done deal for your website.  Have it built using Wordpress for example, so that you can easily change the content. I would also have it set up so you self host it instead of paying a company or web designer to host the site.