Property Management by Owner
Vacation Rental Software Designed for the Property Owner
Take advantage of the exploding vacation rental market!
Channel management has never been easier. PMBO allows you to manage your calendar, rates, bookings and more across 40+ channels with a single, easy to use consolidated dashboard. Get your property out in front of the 20+ Million Guests looking for vacation rentals every month!
Earn More, Work Less & Worry Never
YES, you can manage short-term vacation rentals & local hosting without a professional management company. The Property Management By Owner software was designed to bring back the vacation rental by owner concept, giving you real control of your vacation rental business. Software, Tools, Visibility, Channel Distribution and years of Vacation Rental Management Expertise – everything the individual property owner needs for success and increased profits!
Our customers have reported 4X growth in vacation rental earnings with the PMBO Smart application.
PMBO Smart Applications Increase Your Profits
Channel Manager
List your home and take advantage of our multi-channel listing distribution.
Mobile App
Manage all of your properties using one simple-to-use mobile application.
Local Hosting
Communicating with your guests before, during, and after their stay increases ratings.
Housekeeping App
Peace of mind with a quality control system for monitoring vacant and ready status .
How Does PMBO Work?
Automatic Channel Setup & Distribution:
In addition to listing and promoting your home to our extensive database of travelers, PMBO also automatically integrates with major marketing channels and top travel websites. You can manage your rental property across the most popular channels like Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway, Booking.com, Expedia and more.
Smart Software - Easy to Get Started
Quickly enter your vacation homes content, rates, availability, pictures and more on the mobile app.
There's no need to manually update multiple channels. Eliminate double or missed bookings with a single management platform.
Availability & rates are automatically synced across all desired management channels.
Content syndication allows your property descriptions, amenities, pictures, and more to be synced across all channels; improving your listing, ranking, views, and bookings!
Net pricing allows automatic adjustment of rates to cover channel/OTA/commission fees on each channel so you receive your net price per night as set by you on our software.
Manage your reservations and access your booking history. Save money and spend less time on management with our centralized command center.
How Much Can You Earn?
Our customers have reported up to 4x growth in rental reservations with the use of PMBO smart software channel manager. Need more bookings, we can help……
How PMBO Maximizes Rental Earnings
One Centralized Command Center
Manage all your properties and channels through a single, centralized dashboard. Automatically sync data across 30+ premium listing sites and manage it all through one unified calendar, inbox, and reservation system.
We Eliminated Guest Booking Fees!
Guests save 20% or more by choosing our Vacation Travel By Owner (VTBO.com) site and booking directly with us. Unlike other rental management sites today, VTBO does NOT charge a separate guest booking fee.
Automatic Inclusion in VTBO
Guests are catching on to changes in the real estate marketplace and looking for actual BY OWNER options where rental home pricing and bookings don't have additional costs. VTBO is the answer, and your inclusion in our booking site is automatic and FREE. All properties are automatically included in our online booking engine and marketing site VTBO (Vacation Travel By Owner). VTBO specializes in vacation rentals direct per owner.
A True By-Owner Option
The marketplace has changed a lot in the past few years. Most large By Owner sites are predominantly large property management companies and travel agencies. The By Owner marketplace has all but disappeared.
PMBO is reviving the true By Owner experience, letting property owners manage every aspect of their rentals.
Bookings & Inquiry Responses
Each property has defaulted automatic inquiry responses allowing immediate replies to questions from our Vacation Travel By Owner (VTBO) booking engine as well as our channel partners. Improve your rankings and search order results across all channels with responsiveness!
Owner Flexibility
Our owners are our most important customers and we’ve put you first with owner-friendly policies like no term commitments, no limits on personal stays and an Owner Loyalty Program allowing you to decrease your costs year after year.
Housekeeping App
Integrate with Housekeeping By Owner to assign the housekeeper or service person of your choice to your property. Define work, see current housekeeping tasks and have complete access to the current status for inspections, uploading pictures of the home on guest departure. Record previous guest ratings, report damages, request maintenance, and supervisor inspections. Integrate with the Mobile App to quickly and easily see the current housekeeping status related to your upcoming reservations.
Mobile App
Managing your vacation rental has never been easier. With the PMBO Mobile app, use your cell phone to view today’s check-ins, today’s check-outs, tomorrow’s check-ins, tomorrow’s check-outs and a full list of all reservations. Communicate details quickly and easily with guests and build messages to send out via text for pre-arrival, check-in instructions, internet/Wi-Fi, property address, directions, check-out instructions, welcome and thank you messages, all defined in your back-office.
Automated Guest Communication
PMBO sends out automated guest messages, including rental contracts, reservation confirmations, email reminders of upcoming stays, check-in instructions, an invitation to Local Host By Owner guest app, request for reviews and more – Ensuring you have professional and timely responses to your guests throughout the entire reservation process.
Local Host By Owner App
Saving you time and money, we’ve integrated a guest concierge application to automate and impress your guests. Property and reservation information is available at your guests' fingertips as well as local weather, events, restaurants and activities and an integrated communication thread. We’ve even built in mobile check-in, mobile check-out and frequently asked questions such as directions or Wi-Fi info.
Low fees!
Increase your profits without eating into your free time. The cost of using the PMBO management software and app is significantly less than typical management companies who charge up to 55% in some areas. You'll save money and time, allowing you to afford and manage additional vacation homes and expand your real estate portfolio.
Ready to earn more, work less, and never worry?
Get started with Property Management By Owner. Your vacation rental property management software solution.
With PMBO, You've Got This!
We’ve got you covered. PMBO was designed to minimize property management times while maximizing profits with your vacation rental. We provide local hosting and rental management support to the individual property owner, allowing you to quickly and easily set up your vacation rental property to take advantage of the prosperous short-term rental market. We have the tools to get the the visibility and support you need, promoting your property on our direct per owner reservation site (VTBO), automating guest communication, distributing across the major industry vacation rental partners, handling guest interactions and logistics and support for helping with the guest related activities – cleaning, communication, follow up and reviews!
Use our central dashboard to easily get your property out in front of the
20 million people booking vacation rentals each month!
Our smart software is designed to maximize your vacation rental earnings within the ever-changing resort rental market. With one central dashboard to control it all – sync rates, update your calendar, manage reservations, and communicate with your guests – it has never been easier to start making profit with your vacation rental.
As a property owner, you can do this. You do not need to give up 25, 30, 40 or even 50% plus of your rental homes income to a traditional property management company. We understand the ever-changing short-term rental environment and make the adjustments necessary to keep up with these changes. Add in our PMBO SMART apps and you’ve got the visibility & tools needed to be “virtually” on-site, regardless of where you are physically located, to provide a local hands on approach to managing your property and your guest.
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