Mark Twain said 'The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.' That's what you can do when you join the SkyRun family of Vacation Rental Locations by owning and operating your own SkyRun vacation destination.  SkyRun adds resorts by finding local entrepreneurs that work and live in or near the resort area and helping them start a new Vacation Rental Property Management business or expand an existing business. 

Enabling local owners is the way to provide exceptional local knowledge and service to our guests and to property owners.

We are currently seeking highly qualified individuals to start SkyRun locations.  Any luxury vacation destination is a possibility.

The highlights of SkyRun Vacation Rentals program are:

• SkyRun provides a hosted website on the www.SkyRun.com site that you simply load your properties into.  Click on one of our resorts on www.SkyRun.com to see our location sites.  The website has been optimized to send search engine traffic and renters to your site to get retail (direct from renter) bookings.
• SkyRun provides a back-office system to track all reservations, charge credit cards to your merchant account and do all owner accounting/statements.  There is a full work order tracking system as well as cleaning and management reports.
• SkyRun provides an owner portal where your owners can track and make their reservations and view past statements and tax info.
• SkyRun provides a network of wholesalers (others that work to book your properties for you) an easy way to book your properties to help.
  
• Our Location Owner Portal provides online access to all SkyRun documents and information.  Each franchisee also has their individual area of the portal to store your documents.
  
• SkyRun provides our expertise on how to improve your marketing to owners as well as guests.  For example, google ranking as well as how to get listed on internet travel sites like Orbitz and Travelocity and Expedia and Travel Agents around the world.

A SkyRun Location includes:

• License to use the SkyRun brand.
• Territory rights.
• Free unlimited use of our hosted SkyTrax System to load your properties and owner contracts and get your business on the web.
• 3 Days of training for all new franchisees at our Keystone Resort Location.
• Access to the location owner portal (logon to the left on this page) with documents such as:
  - I/T guides how to setup and use your skyrun.com emails, how to create and maintain your website and the backend system reports
  - Branding logos, letterheads, ads, business cards, etc
  - Operational guides and information
  - Planning documents including a profitatibily estimator
  - All educational materials provided in the 3 day class
  - HR documents such as contracts, applications, position descriptions, evaluation forms
  - Owners information such as marketing letters, a sample contract, owners guides for how to use the owners portal
• Franchise business and operations manual.
• Development of your initial marketing campaign for signing property owners.
• Development of your initial marketing campaign for attracting renters.
• Forms, letters and checklists.
• Annual conferences.
• Rapid startup program.
• Proprietary marketing system.
• Continued market research.
• Access to our expertise and consulting to help customize our program to the unique requirements of each vacation location.

Take the next step and call us at 1-877-SkyRun-1 (877-759-7861).  Use extension x101 (or say 'Barry') to speak directly with SkyRun CEO Barry Cox about our Location ownership opportunities to learn more on how SkyRun can help you get started in the Vacation Rental Property Management business.

It's a lifestyle with the income to match!

Q: What are the skills and qualifications required to operate a SkyRun Vacation Rental Location.

A: Running your own SkyRun business in a resort can be extremely rewarding.  Our most successful location owners have characteristics like a strong work ethic, the ability to focus on details, a general aptitude for business, marketing and sales and the ability to work with and manage a staff.  Experience and/or business eductation is a must.  Our business is very much automated, with most of our communication happening on email and using websites.  Therefore, to operate a successful location, you must be very comfortable with using a computer to work.

Perhaps the single biggest characteristic though is the unrelenting desire to do what it takes to provide great vacations to the families you serve as well as to protect the investments of your client/owners as if the property was your own.  If you enjoy providing hospitality and introducing people to the area that you love yourself, you will succeed.

Q:What investment is required?

A: One of the great things about the vacation rental business is that there is no inventory to buy or factories or stores or offices to build.   You are renting property owned, maintained and paid for by your client/owners!  While you're adding your first 10-25 properties in the critical startup phase where most businesses require large amounts of start-up cash, you don't even need an office!  You can provide keys via a lockbox or coded door locks and use subcontractors who are plentiful in resort locations for cleaning and maintenance.

There are also very few fixed costs.  Most of the costs are variable (like cleaning and marketing) so that as you add more properties and get more bookings, the costs rise only as your revenue rises to cover the costs.  For an investment of about $50K-$100K (depending on how fast you want to grow and how large the terrirory is) you can get a business started quickly.