What Are Vacation Rentals By Owner?

I recently did some digging online to answer that question.

Seems pretty straight forward. I figured the almighty Google would return me some explanatory results.

Nope.

Instead, I was served a bland list of vacation rental directory homepages, all of whom eagerly served up their inventory, but didn't bother addressing the question: what, exactly, are vacation rentals by owner? How do they work? What are the benefits? What are the risks involved?

To be honest, our site also fails to offer a sufficient explanation for a guest new to the idea of renting a home instead of a hotel. So I decided to hold my proverbial nose to grindestone and create an informative and polished Squidoo lens:

Vacation Rentals By Owner

Have a read and let us know what you think in the comments!