The #1 reason why homeowners leave other vacation rental companies and come to us, is our response time and their ability to speak to me, the President of Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals.
Don’t get stuck in a frustrating queue awaiting responses from low level office managers that can’t make decisions, and with an outside national company that views you and your home as a number on a spreadsheet. With a decade of experience as a personal assistant and estate manager to some of Hollywood’s most elite celebrities and executives and a decade of service to homeowners through SBVR, I have developed an acute awareness of the details that are most important to you and your investment.
Call me personally, and I will show you how Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals will Protect and Respect your Home, Grow Revenue, and Manage your Guests.
Brooke Gilmartin, President
Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals
Your home will be marketed through 50+ sites worldwide reaching over 95% of all vacation renters. Just a few of the sites included are HomeAway, VRBO, Vacationrentals.com, Expedia, FlipKey, and TripAdvisor.
SBVacationRentals.com has consistently been the highest listed website in both the paid and organic searches. Through our highly monitored Search Engine Optimization status, we can assure you that your listing will get the most attention when renters are sifting through all available options.
Do telephone agents sitting in Austin, Texas or Boulder, Colorado really know the best places to eat in Santa Barbara, like Lucky’s or the newly opened Oliver’s Restaurant? Do they know where to direct guests to the hottest bar in the Funk Zone? – Of course not! SBVR Rental Agents know the town inside and out, giving your guests the most up to date information for the absolute best experience!
The REAP Program is exclusive to SBVR. SBVR is virtually the only local property manager that partners, not competes, with many of the finest real estate agents and brokers in Santa Barbara. SBVR offers the most robust agent partnership referral program in the market, which means more referrals of quality guests and discriminating like-mined homeowners.
SBVR handles all guest stays and collects all funds on your behalf.
SBVR has a strict vetting policy. We do not deploy “turn and burn” tactics like other vacation rental companies that are only interested in their fees from any rental they can book. SBVR adheres to homeowner wishes regarding number of guests, smoking and pet policies, number and age of children, and we also inquire as to the purpose of their visit to ensure the best experience.
Our cleaning and maintenance teams are some of the best in town. Multiple point inspections are checked against original inventory rosters after each departure. Any maintenance issues are reported to homeowners and action is taken immediately to replace or repair items and to withhold part or all of the security deposit.
SBVR has the best response time for guests, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We gauge responses in minutes, not hours or even days, which has been the unfortunate experience from guests that have stayed at vacation homes using other management companies.
Dinner prepared at home by a guest chef? Yes! Photographer to capture that special moment? Yes! Baby crib and play pen delivered? Yes! Dinner reservations, wine tours, in house massage therapists, grocery shopping prior to guest’s arrival, Yes, yes, yes, and yes!! Our priority is for all guests to experience the absolute best that Santa Barbara has to offer and our concierge services guarantees that they do.
Happy guests write great reviews! The success of earning positive reviews is measuring and meeting guest expectations before they book the property. Assuring the property is the right fit first, drives opportunities to request positive reviews and we pride ourselves in the hundreds of glowing reviews that we have collected to date, that not only speak to the property they rented but also speak to their experience working with SBVR.
Before your home receives guests, we create a video inventory & roster of all the furnishings, accessories, and kitchen content. The condition and locations of items are captured within the video, which is used by housekeeping and inspection teams prior to a guest check-in and again at guest check-out.
The maintenance of your home is the most important aspect of this business. If the homes we manage are not maintained at a certain level, guests will not return, positive reviews will not post and business will not flourish the way it should. In addition to our routine inspections before and after each guest, we also conduct quarterly health and safety checks where smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are inspected, batteries are changed out, batteries in remotes are replaced.
House Manuals are created for guests that are easy to understand and readily available at the time of check-in. Information on how to operate the entertainment systems, TV, and wi-fi, and other dos and don’ts for the property are also included and are made available to guests in an electronic format that can be easily edited or changed as needed.
SBVR assures protection of your home with security deposits rather than offering damage waivers. Guests are far more cautious when a minimum $1,500 security deposit is at stake rather than a minute $45.00 damage waiver fee. We also don’t care to battle with third party insurance companies when it comes to replacing items for our home owners and risk not receiving the full value for those items.
SBVR offers some of the best technology in the business to protect you and respect your home. Each home will be equipped with sensors that alert us to noise, smoke, glass breaks, and humidity. These new, best of class systems assure your guests are not getting too rowdy and disturbing the neighbors, smoking, leaving windows open or creating water leaks. Guests can be notified in the form of emails or even lights, which illuminate from the sensors giving warning to guests that they are reaching designated limits. These devices also sends a signal to management in the event someone may try to cover up or disable the device.
All homes will also have electronic keyless entry systems that allows us to control access to your home by guests, maintenance and cleaning personnel. SBVR also knows when someone enters and exits the property, and can change access privileges in real-time.
