May 08 2008
Dog Friendly Vacation Homes
Do you need to increase your weeks rented? Allow dogs
Is your vacation home not booking as many weeks as you would like? Simply changing it to a pet-friendly home can increase your home’s weeks booked. Many home owners are instantly against allowing pets. Most of their fears center around the damage a dog or pet could do to their home. While this certainly is a possibility, it definitely is not the norm.
A dog left unattended could definitely cause damage to your home. There is no mistaking that. The positive lies in the fact that most guests take extraordinarily good care of their dogs and other pets. Most house trained dogs will not soil your home. The simple fact of increasing rental income can outweigh the additional expense of allowing dogs.
In a 2004 study done by the American Animal Hospital Association, over two thirds of Americans travel with their pets. Let’s take a minute and look at that statistic. Two thirds travel with their pets. That means your non pet-friendly home is only marketable to one third of all travelers.  There is a large market that your home is not even an option for. It can be that the extra weeks easily outweigh any extra damage your home incurs.
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