What: Coast Rentals, another subsidiary of Red Awning, is a marketing site to rent out your furnished home or apartment
Commissions & Fees: 20%
Expected pay: NA
Where: Nationwide
Requirements: A home to rent and the legal right to do it.
Review:
PROS:
- Lists properties on its own affiliated sites, on Expedia, Hotels.com, Booking.com, and Airbnb, among others.
- RedAwning also provides $3,000 in property damage coverage and says it has a consumer-friendly phone app to allow customers to manage their reservations.
CONS:
- Reviews on both Google Play and the Apple store say that the app doesn’t necessarily work.
- RedAwning also doesn’t allow hosts and guests to communicate making it impossible to screen tenants.
- A lot of bad reviews
Airbnb offers a better service and is cheaper for the property owner.
What Users Say: (From the Better Business Bureau)
I own a property management company in SW Idaho. Red Awning is responsible for multiple double booking issues in my homes. I recently displaced a guest to another vacation rental that was nothing like the home they thought they were renting. I let them stay there for 5 nights with no revenue because Red Awning had their money. They have now refunded the guests credit card and I have no revenue to show for them staying in my condo for five nights. It is near impossible to get anyone at the company to communicate with me. RED AWNING IS HORRIBLE DO NOT USE THEM, you can find the same homes for cheaper on plenty of other websites just do your research. They actually mark up my homes to make money and don’t want me to tell the guests about it. TOTALLY UNETHICAL!!
