Why Choose Vacation Homes of Key West?
About Us:
Vacation Homes of Key West (VHKW) is a premier locally owned and operated vacation rental agency that specializes in vacation rentals in Key West, Florida and this is all we do. We do not sell real estate nor do we rent properties long term. This allows us to focus all or our efforts on marketing and renting vacation rentals. Our business lists an exclusive collection of privately owned Key West vacation rentals which we categorize as villas, cottages, townhouses and condos, suites, compounds, and estates in Key West, Florida.
Our vacation rental business is one of the most established in Key West. We have been residents of Key West for decades. We are an extended family-based business with deep roots in our island. Our company owner has been in the vacation rental business since the early 1990's and has been in this business since the internet first started advertising vacation rentals.
International Exposure to Travelers and Vacation Renters searching the Internet:
We specialize in internet marketing and advertising vacation rental properties in Key West on the internet. Our website consistently ranks at the top of "organic" internet searches for 'Key West vacation rentals' and 'Key West vacation homes.' What this means for you is that when travelers around the world are looking for a vacation rental property in Key West, your property will consistently be found as an exclusive vacation rental property towards the top of the search. Our website receives over a million 'hits' per month and our 'unique visits' are in the tens of thousands each month. At the risk of sounding 'technical' our impressive search engine optimization (SEO) accomplishments have been made 'in-house' over years of diligent work.
Our website provides an extraordinary presentation of all the vacation rental properties we market. We use only architectural advertising photography and create ad copy written by a professional writer. The end result is a customized marketing piece for your property this is likened to a 'House Beautiful' type magazine. Each property we represent receives this level of marketing at not cost to you.
The Vacation Homes of Key West website also provides unique features and information not typically offered by vacation rental businesses. Our custom interactive Google Key West Map provides detailed information about the distinct neighborhoods of Key West and received over 200,000 visitors in its first year. Our website also offers an exhaustive list of Things to See and Do in Key West and a Key West Events page. In 2011 we have added a unique Key West Picture Gallery that offers fine photography for sale by renowned Key West photographers. This added feature not only offers a unique opportunity to purchase professional photography by established artists, it brings valued content to our website and draws even more visitors to see your property on our website.
In addition to our VHKW website we promote our business and your property through a combination of search engine optimization (SEO) and social networking including our Vacation Homes of Key West Facebook and Twitter accounts, custom YouTube videos, and Vacation Rentals Blogs. We also provide paid website advertising and links to mega vacation rental and travel websites such as VRBO.com, Flipkey.com, and concentrate on more locally based Florida Keys based on-line advertising such as keywest.com, Key West Business Guild, and bestkeywestrentals.com.
Business Services:
VHKW is technologically advanced and utilizes a custom reservation system that is integrated with Quick Books to provide real time financial reporting. VHKW provides outstanding advertising and internet marketing services, processing vacation rental contracts, collecting rental payments, collecting and paying State sales and County bed tax, book keeping, bill paying. We also provide consultation on interior design, quality assurance, and provide the scheduling of housekeeping and property maintenance and grounds keeping. The agency handles vacation rental properties for absentee as well as locally based property owners.
How We Are Different:
"VHKW is a boutique business that specializes in unique privately owned vacation rentals in Key West, and this is all we do. We do not sell real estate, which allows us to focus all or our efforts on marketing and renting vacation rentals."
Our company owner owns several vacation rental properties, has been in the vacation rental business since the early 1990's and was one of the first professionals in the Florida Keys to begin advertising vacation rentals on the internet. Since the corporate registration of Vacation Homes of Key West in 2002, vacationhomesofkeywest.com (VacationHomesOfKeyWest.com) has received hundreds of thousands of internet inquiries for Key West vacation rentals resulting in tens of thousands of fulfilled rental contracts and satisfied rentals.
As a marketing company, VHKW provides an extraordinary marketing campaign for each of the properties we represent that includes a complete set of architectural quality photographs of the property and ad copy written by a professional writer at no additional cost to the property owner. We have an 'in house' computer programmer and graphic designer. The beauty of our website received major national media recognition in April 2011, when two of rental properties advertised on Vacation Homes of Key West were filmed by HGTV for feature in a vacation rental House Hunter episode.
We look forward to your inquiry about our unique program. Please contact us for more detailed information on advertising and renting your Key West vacation rental property with us.
