About the service

• The service
  GetawayRental.com is a marketplace for vacation home rentals.  Our service provides the vacation home owner with a convenient and cost effective means of marketing their apartment without the excessive costs of rental agencies.  Once your apartment is listed, vacationers from around the world will begin contact you to rent your vacation home. To list your apartment, go to the registration page and follow the page links to add photos and your apartment details. 

• Security
  The exact address of your vacation home is never made available. Any address information that you completed for contact Registration is for internal use only. Also, since an explicit description and photographs are uploaded on the site, only extremely interested parties will contact you.

• Our clientele
  Lessors can feel secure leasing their apartment through our service. Our marketing initiatives are directed towards the most prestigious graduate schools and businesses throughout the world.

• Multiple Listings
  If you have multiple listings, you must re-register for each additional listing. Everything on the registration can be completed with the same information; BUT you must use a NEW PASSWORD. Once you have completed a new registration, complete the apartment details of the new listing. Repeat this process for each additional listing. Remember to keep track of the password used for each listing; this will enable you to easily update/delete a particular listing when needed.

• GetawayRental Fees
  There is a $20 monthly fee for each vacation home listed in our database..

• Pricing your vacation home
  We recommend that our clients price their apartments at a fair market value.

• Expenses
  We suggest that the price your rental  include utility, cable and other miscellaneous expenses. Renters should not be made responsible for such expenses. We also recommend that the telephone service be included in the price.

• The security deposit
  The determination and collection of the security deposit is the owner's responsibility. We recommend that security deposit for your listing be the lessor of 25% of the rental.

• Choosing the season dates
  Seasons are intended to differentiate between times when a vacation home should be rented for higher or lower prices. Be careful when choosing season date they will determine the success rate of a rental property.

• Deleting your listing
  Once your apartment has been rented, please return to the site to remove the listing. To do this, goto the Owner Home Page and click on "update / remove listing". After entering your password, your listing should appear. Proceed to the bottom of the page and click the "delete" button. Your apartment will then be deleted.

• Renter negotiations
  Renters will contact owners directly.  At this point, all negotiations are between the owner and renter.

• Viewing other listings
  If you are interested in seeing the other listings available in your area, Goto the home page, enter as a Renter and browse the inventory.