ChivalrousJr

From your comment: "Money saving tip with VRBO or similar service. It is possible with a bit of sleuthing to find the property owner or managing company. If you contact them directly (outside of services like VRBO,) you will save yourself a fair bit of money."

Be careful about this. We thought we had a villa booked through VRBO (it showed available when we reserved) for next February only to hear from the lady who owned it that she had already booked the property for the entire month we were planning to come. We were able to find another one okay, but, interestingly we looked at this property again on VRBO a few days ago and it STILL shows availability for the dates we wanted. Our biggest fear is showing up thinking we have reserved a property only to find out the owner has rented it on their own and someone is already there! Just sayin...........