Real Estate Group: Messages by stevepresley

Snowman on the Beach

It seems I keep looking for a reason to travel to the beach, so I have recently started a new business to allow me a new excuse to travel there more often. As I continue to watch the media blast, todays real estate market one thing that comes to mind is, when realestate is struggling the realestate rental market has always done well. It’s a simple formula, less property owners more renters. This holds true for local residential real estate and also for vacation beach front properties like I am renting at www.snowmanbeachrentals.com The internet has so changed our world and this new business model is a good example of a way to take advantage of the vast number of eyes viewing high traffic web sites.


I have been buying and managing beachfront property on the gulf coast for over 15 years. When I purchased my first unit years ago I managed the rental process from start to finish and as a result of that my net rental income at the end of the year would always exceed the results of the larger structured companies. The problem was the time it took to answer the phone and book rentals and supply the necessary service was a challenge. I decided after a few years of this I would allow the onsite rental companies to manage my units and did so excepting the fact that I would pay higher management fees, and have less flexibility with my unit on several levels.

I thought , what if I could show people how they can double the rentals and reduce there management fees by 50%, would they be interested?

I never liked the idea that my unit was in a rental pool with 100 or 200 others and was on a rotation basis, or the fact that when I stayed in my own unit it rotated to the bottom of the cycle, forcing me to wait even longer for rental income. Also I did not want to pay high management fees, and I wanted the flexibility to rent to my friends without paying high management fees. Flexibility was hard to find with the big management companies.


Two years ago I found a local company that specialized only in a small area of the beach and rented units via the Internet, at the time I had a small one-bedroom unit that was in the small area this company was servicing. I signed up with them and last year my 900 sq ft unit grossed 30k in rentals which was13k higher than the onsite company had been grossing. The rental management fees were also 10% less. I have asked this company to expand into other areas where I have beachfront properties but they are a small mom and pop company and run a nice boutique kind of shop and have no desire to expand. They have shared with me their forms and marketing process so I can duplicate their model in other areas for my rental units and or the units of my personal clients. You can see at this link Snowman Beach Rentals I have partnered with a very professional team to once again manage my own units in the Panama City Market myself and offer to a select group my services as well.

We plan on keeping this group small in an effort to supply a high quality service. We are offering FREE professional photos of your unit for the marketing and development of your own web site that will be linked via the internet to the marketing engine that we have developed. This Internet Marketing system reaches MILLIONS OF potential renters per month and is used to drive rentals to my units currently. I am now prepared to make this service available to the public. I am using the system now for my Shores of Panama unit and have booked several rental weeks in the last couple of weeks alone. The GOLD system will be exposed to over 42 internet search engines using thousands of different key word search combinations. Examples: Google.com Click on this link to see the results of the search string : "vacation rentals panama city" and then click on the www.panamacity-beachrentals.com link to see the snowmanbeachrentals web site where your unit will be advertised to MILLIONS of potential customers. Other examples: Google.com condos in panama city and panama city condo, and on www.yahoo.com panama city condo rentals, these are just a few examples of the thousands we currently have for getting exposure for condo units.

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