The owner of this charming cabin in Ohio drives high-quality bookings and repeat business. Learn how adding her listing to our platform helped her gain visibility, capture traveller demand and garner consistent five-star reviews.
Charming holiday rental cabin
One room
Ohio cabin 
14 years in business
Their story
Jenny Myers has built a successful holiday rental business over the last fourteen years. With a cosy cabin on her family’s property near the university town of Wooster in rural Ohio, her satisfaction comes from helping people create memories to last a lifetime.
Over the years, Jenny learned how to manage a holiday rental home from scratch. From marketing and booking the property to cleaning the cabin and welcoming guests, Jenny is hands-on, filling every role and making sure that everything is perfect. Her consistent five-star reviews show that she has the right formula!
Jenny indicated that her cabin had been listed on several booking sites, including Airbnb and Booking.com, but about a year ago she decided to give our platform a try. Jenny had just finished an enjoyable personal stay at a property listed on our platform, and her research showed that travellers were increasingly trending towards booking with us.
After making the decision to jump in, she found our onboarding process very simple and was delighted to see bookings coming in almost immediately.
‘I got my first booking within 24 hours [of listing my property], and then they just kept coming. And the bookings are for longer stays too, which is better for my business’.
Jenny Myers, Owner
Ohio cabin
The solution
Jenny takes her business seriously and has found many resources that help keep her stay on top of trends, connect with other hosts to share ideas and constantly hone her property management skills.
Jenny never stops learning, from attending seminars and webinars to reading articles and participating in a variety of local small business programmes and in online host communities.
One thing she’s learned is that she prefers to have guests book through a trusted marketplace rather than directly with her. This frees her up to focus on what matters most — making sure her guests have a great experience. Working with us provides an additional layer of protection with carefully vetted guests, fraud prevention tools and more.
Jenny has also observed that the quality of guests really does vary across each holiday rental marketplace. On our platform, she has found the ideal guests who stay longer and book again and again. Jenny’s cabin is currently fully booked until the middle of next year, and our platform is now the top source of bookings for the property.
Jenny’s business continues to thrive. In fact, she’s currently expanding, adding a ‘glamping’ option to the property for next year. She and her husband are also starting plans for building an additional cabin down the road.
They’re even considering expanding to other locations by buying another property — perhaps near a lake, something Jenny has always wanted. Knowing that they can acquire a second home, then use our platform to generate revenue when they’re not using it, makes it easier for Jenny and her husband to make their dream of a second home a reality.
Jenny continues to learn and grow as a businesswoman and has even begun offering her expertise to others who are considering starting a holiday rental business. One of the key insights she shares? She tells them that knowing what she knows now, she would have listed with us from the start!
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‘I find that Vrbo brings me the best guests, at volume. Travellers just seem to have more confidence in Vrbo’s quality of homes. Even with Covid, while other booking sites have declined in volume for me, Vrbo has ticked up’.
Jenny Myers, Owner
Ohio cabin
