We have achieved a lot in over 17 years of business! Most importantly, we’ve provided excellent vacation experiences to over 560,000 past guests and quality service to our property owners.
SkyRun Vacation Rentals Franchise Overview
Who says you can’t live in a beach or ski resort AND make a great living? You can… by managing vacation rental properties for the property owners.
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. – Mark Twain
Most properties (homes, condos, townhomes, villas) in resort areas like beaches and ski resorts are 2nd homes owned by over 6.4 million individuals. The majority of these people only use their property for personal use for under 30 days a year. For the remaining 335 days, most owners then rent their properties short-term (by the night or week) in order to produce income, often to cover the expensive mortgage they took out to buy their luxurious resort property.
SkyRun started as a 100 property operation in Keystone Resort, Colorado in 2002 and has a proven, 10 year track record of success in marketing, internet and back-office systems. We’re now over 1,200 properties in 40 locations and would like to add your favorite vacation spot.
OUR PLATFORM
Our daily goal is to enable the growth of each of our franchises. We achieve this through our platform, which provides:
- A fully developed, nationwide, and successful brand.
- Cutting-edge, full-service vacation rental business software.
- Communication tools for your staff, homeowners, and guests.
- Comprehensive distribution to list your vacation rental properties on your own website and on 70+ online booking sites.
- Extensive three-part training to fully prepare you to start and run a vacation rental business confidently.
- Ongoing support to take your business to new heights and consult you on best practices.
- Advanced marketing tactics that continuously send guest bookings and potential homeowners your way.
Why Choose SkyRun?
We offer a comprehensive franchise package that includes proprietary software, operational systems, and beyond to entrepreneurs who are ready to tackle the challenges and reap the rewards of owning a vacation rental business.
The highlights of SkyRun Vacation Rentals Franchise program are:
- SkyRun provides a hosted website that you simply load your properties into. 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 Franchisee 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.
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A FRANCHISEE
- You are an entrepreneur at heart
- You live in or within 1 hour of your destination
- You are looking for executive-level income
- You have at least 10 years of business experience
- You want to dedicate a full-time schedule toward operating your SkyRun or be willing to hire a GM to support executive ownership
- You reject the status quo, want to depart from corporate America, and be in a lifestyle business
DOES SKYRUN REQUIRE ME TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE?
No, and that’s the beauty of this opportunity and industry. You do not need to invest in real estate, rather, you focus on building relationships with homeowners so that they provide the vacation rentals for your business.
Some locations end up having a front-facing office for guests in their destination, but you could do everything from your home, too!
In joining SkyRun, you would be joining an industry leading organization who is experiencing healthy growth while maintaining a high level of excellence across our entire business.