Vacation Real Estate Picks Up in the Sun!
Everyone dreams of owning a vacation home, and every spring and summer, lucky families find it in their budget to buy one. Whether its a condo in Myrtle Beach, a lakefront home in Greenwood SC, a condo on the golf course in Albuquerque, or a Des Moines townhome, many Americans will find a way to own their little piece of paradise during their lifetime.
The various real estate sites that I maintain started getting increased traffic in mid-January, and have gotten more and more every week. In Myrtle Beach it's not unusual for vacation rental sites such as CondoLux to have two or three thousand visits PER DAY. Real estate sites here are a bit more modest...perhaps only a thousand per day during the heighth of the season, but that's actually pretty mind-boggling when you think about it. Having 30,000 visitors per month to your website is pretty amazing.
As the season begins, you should be looking at your site to make sure your links are all still valid, and then do yourself another favor...go out with your camera and TAKE PICTURES! Go to the nicest community developments where the flowers are blooming and the kids are playing and show off what your city has to offer in the way of vacation fun. So much of a real estate sale is emotional. Nothing attracts the eye like a beautiful picture of an aqua blue pool sparkling in the sunlight, or the reds and yellows of flowers covering the ground.
By the way, how do you pronounce AQUA? We have an ongoing debate here in Myrtle Beach where there is so much of that color everywhere. Do you say A-qua like "cat"? Or do you throw a whammy on it and call it AH-qua? I'd love to take a poll and find out. I'm in the soft A category myself! :-)
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