Second Porch and CorporateHousingbyOwner.com partner to bring thousands of furnished rental homes to fast-growing social vacation home marketplace
Travelers can discover trusted vacation rentals and urban hotel alternatives through Facebook® friends
Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) May 13, 2010 — Second Porch and CorporateHousingByOwner.com today announce a partnership to distribute and enable thousands of furnished rental listings from CorporateHousingByOwner.com to be seen and accessible via Second Porch’s integrated Facebook application and social vacation home marketplace.
Second Porch enables travelers to rent and recommend vacation homes with friends, and friends of friends, on Facebook. CorporateHousingByOwner.com connects individuals offering furnished rentals with tenants in need of short-term, furnished housing. This partnership allows thousands of furnished vacation and corporate rental properties listed on CorporateHousingByOwner.com to also be accessible through the Second Porch Facebook application.
“This partnership enables travelers who visit Second Porch to use an innovative combination of public and “social search” to find vacation rental homes in major cities across the U.S. and Canada,” says Brent Hieggelke, president of Second Porch. “We are finding that more individuals demand to stay in a furnished home versus an impersonal hotel during their travels and the most comfortable way to source the perfect home is through your trusted network of friends.”
The listings from CorporateHousingByOwner.com will also be “socially-enabled” by Second Porch, enabling friends to “fan, comment and recommend” the homes to keep track of favorites as well as easily share interesting listings with their Facebook friends.
“Our customers constantly turn to us to help them identify innovative ways to market their corporate rental properties. Our partnership with Second Porch gives our customers the opportunity to take advantage of the broad set of Second Porch social awareness tools so they can share their properties with their extended social networks and find a new channel of potential tenants,” says Kimberly Smith, founder of CorporateHousingByOwner.com.
About Second Porch Inc.
Second Porch is a new social vacation home marketplace, including the first Facebook application that helps vacation homeowners open up a new channel of guests, as well as overcome the biggest barriers to marketing their properties — the fear and hassle of renting to strangers. Second Porch also allows homeowners to discover other homeowners who are amenable to trading homes. Second Porch users can search for homes based on location, budget, recommendations, amenities, and—most importantly — their relationship to the owner or former guests. Second Porch is also the first vacation home portal that offers private visibility for homeowners who only want their friends to see their home listing. Second Porch's attractive, easy-to-use design allows owners to display property photos, amenities and home updates on their profile pages.
About CorporateHousingbyOwner.com
CorporateHousingbyOwner.com was founded in 2006 out of a need to connect private homeowners and real estate investors offering furnished, short-term rentals with corporate housing seekers such as traveling executives, relocated professionals, traveling nurses, actors, athletes and more. The company gives individual homeowners and investors tools to manage a corporate housing property themselves as well as helps them market their property to a mass audience turning to corporate housing to fulfill their housing needs. Please visit www.CorporateHousingbyOwner.com for more information.
Press Contacts
Second Porch Brent Hieggelke
Tel: 503-702-3547
brent@secondporch.com
CorporateHousingByOwner.com Jenny Finke
Tel: 303-815-4043
jenny@redjeweledmedia.com
Second Porch enables travelers to rent and recommend vacation homes with friends, and friends of friends, on Facebook. CorporateHousingByOwner.com connects individuals offering furnished rentals with tenants in need of short-term, furnished housing. This partnership allows thousands of furnished vacation and corporate rental properties listed on CorporateHousingByOwner.com to also be accessible through the Second Porch Facebook application.
“This partnership enables travelers who visit Second Porch to use an innovative combination of public and “social search” to find vacation rental homes in major cities across the U.S. and Canada,” says Brent Hieggelke, president of Second Porch. “We are finding that more individuals demand to stay in a furnished home versus an impersonal hotel during their travels and the most comfortable way to source the perfect home is through your trusted network of friends.”
The listings from CorporateHousingByOwner.com will also be “socially-enabled” by Second Porch, enabling friends to “fan, comment and recommend” the homes to keep track of favorites as well as easily share interesting listings with their Facebook friends.
“Our customers constantly turn to us to help them identify innovative ways to market their corporate rental properties. Our partnership with Second Porch gives our customers the opportunity to take advantage of the broad set of Second Porch social awareness tools so they can share their properties with their extended social networks and find a new channel of potential tenants,” says Kimberly Smith, founder of CorporateHousingByOwner.com.
About Second Porch Inc.
Second Porch is a new social vacation home marketplace, including the first Facebook application that helps vacation homeowners open up a new channel of guests, as well as overcome the biggest barriers to marketing their properties — the fear and hassle of renting to strangers. Second Porch also allows homeowners to discover other homeowners who are amenable to trading homes. Second Porch users can search for homes based on location, budget, recommendations, amenities, and—most importantly — their relationship to the owner or former guests. Second Porch is also the first vacation home portal that offers private visibility for homeowners who only want their friends to see their home listing. Second Porch's attractive, easy-to-use design allows owners to display property photos, amenities and home updates on their profile pages.
About CorporateHousingbyOwner.com
CorporateHousingbyOwner.com was founded in 2006 out of a need to connect private homeowners and real estate investors offering furnished, short-term rentals with corporate housing seekers such as traveling executives, relocated professionals, traveling nurses, actors, athletes and more. The company gives individual homeowners and investors tools to manage a corporate housing property themselves as well as helps them market their property to a mass audience turning to corporate housing to fulfill their housing needs. Please visit www.CorporateHousingbyOwner.com for more information.
Press Contacts
Second Porch Brent Hieggelke
Tel: 503-702-3547
brent@secondporch.com
CorporateHousingByOwner.com Jenny Finke
Tel: 303-815-4043
jenny@redjeweledmedia.com