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Chateau Timberline Managed by Sunspot Resorts
(News Item #0225, 08/01/10) ChateauTimberline.com — Just a few miles outside the South East entrance to Mount Rainier National park in Washington state is the unique Chateau Timberline Hotel (ChateauTimberline.com). Built in the English half-timber st...
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Tamara Hall Named Sunpots Crystal Mountain Partner
(News Item #0209, 05/18/10) CrystalMountainSunspots.com — Sunspot Resorts has announced that Tamara Hall joined the company as a Partner, and Owner of the Crystal Mountain Sunspots Vacation Rental Office which serves the Greenwater and Crystal Mountains Ski...
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Mount Rainier Vacation Rentals Becomes a Sunspot
(News Item #0202, 04/23/10) SunspotResorts.com — PC Dickinson is a retired school teacher on a mission. To live in the mountains, do some serious skiing and operate an enjoyable business. Four years ago she started Mount Rainier Vacation Rental com...
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How to hunt a Midwest vacation rental - Sunspots' President
(News Item #0206, 04/18/10) ChicagoTribune.com — The Rev. Roland Whitehurst laughed in disbelief when asked about his recent family vacation. "It was just spectacular," he chuckled. "I'm speechless."
The 59-year-old pastor from Tulsa, Okla., was...
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VRIA Opens First Chapter in Italy
(News Item #0199, 04/15/10) VRIA.org — Under the capable direction of Giuseppe Nuzzacia, the Vacation Rental Industry Association is recruiting Members and Chapter leaders all over Italy. He can be telephoned at (+39) 075 5725 765.
VRI...
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NextDoor House Watch Program from Sunspots
(News Item #0203, 04/01/10) SunspotResorts.com — A second home is a prized personal asset. A place for family and friends to get away, rest and relax. But having to worry about the place takes the fun out of it. Traipsing there for minor maintenanc...
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VRIA endorses first chapter in Italy
(News Item #0200, 03/15/10) VRIA.org — It began with a single email and has grown into International cooperation. Today, the Vacation Rental Industry Association (VRIA), headquartered in Seattle Washington USA, announced it has granted a ...
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VRIA Announces Vacation Rental Angels Program
(News Item #0193, 12/25/09) VRIA.org — On Christmas Day, the Vacation Rental Industry Association (VRIA) announced the creation of a program to recognize its members who regularly donate vacation home use to charitable causes.
"The num...
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Home Rentals at Olympics Make Charity A Winner
(News Item #0196, 12/22/09) Seattle Times Newspaper — Imagine sitting in a luxury, three-bedroom home in Whistler, B.C., looking out of your living room as the world's top ski racers zoom across the finish line in the men's downhill or giant slalom at t...
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Washington State's Most Remote Luxury Retreat
(News Item #0190, 12/15/09) SunspotResorts.com — Can I invite you to the most remote and luxurious mountain lodges in Washingto State?
It is called the Chief Joseph Lodge and sits smack dab in the middle of the state and five miles up from the su...
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Jim Hough becomes Sunspot Resorts Partner for Whidbey & Camano Islands
(News Item #0210, 12/01/09) Sunspots.info — As an avid traveler, Jim Hough was looking for a great opportunity to use his business experience while pursuing the travel bug. Recently he decided to join the Sunspot Resorts Network as a Partner ...
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Eight Rungs of the Giving Ladder
(News Item #0188, 11/26/09) VRIA.org — In the spirit of the season some thoughts ring truer than others.
During the Middle Ages, a Jewish Rabbi, physician and philosopher penned his observations about philanthropy. Maimonides (1135 -12...
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AirBnb.com a competitor says Sunspots President
(News Item #0162, 07/26/09) WashingtonPost.com — NOTE: William May, President of Sunspot Inns, Resorts & Vacation Rentals is quoted in the Washington Post about a new Vacation Rental Website - AirBnb.com.
Laura's place in New York's Little Italy...
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Sunspots President Says Book Last Minute, but You Won't Be Beached
(News Item #0163, 07/10/09) WashingtonPost.com — According to William May, President of Sunspot Inns, Resorts & Vacation Rentals (www.SunspotResorts.com) booking last minute won't leave you beached.
"All of those folks who would have called mont...
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Sunspot Resorts Offers CSA Vacation Rental Travel Insurance
(News Item #0152, 06/25/09) SunspotResorts.com — You’ve saved. You’ve planned. You’ve looked forward to your vacation for months. But sometimes things don’t go according to plan. What if you or a loved one gets sick before you leave for your trip? ...
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Ocean Shores added to the Sunspot Resorts Map
(News Item #0150, 05/25/09) SunspotResorts.com — It is sunny at the beach today. Maybe because Dawn Galaena and her Ocean Shores Reservations service has become a member of the Sunspot Resorts Vacation Rental Network.
Ocean Shores Reservations h...
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Seattle Corporate Housing & Vacation Rental Alliance Announced
(News Item #0149, 05/01/09) SunspotResorts.com — Pacific Guest Suites, a boutique corporate housing provider headquartered in Seattle Washington has announced a strategic alliance with Sunspot Resorts a vacation rental operator from Seattle.
Pac...
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Sunspots President Speaks to LuxuryRealEstate.com Conference
(News Item #0148, 04/28/09) LuxuryRealEstate.com — LuxuryRealEstate.com an exclusive association of the world's top 1,000 luxury residential real estate agents held its annual spring conference in Las Vegas, Nevada this week and heard from an expert ...
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First Vacation Rental Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Announced.
(News Item #0145, 03/29/09) VRMLS.org — The newest approach to Vacation Rentals on the Internet is being unveiled at the April 6th meeting of the Washington State - Vacation Rental Managers Meeting.
Plumbob Publishing has created the fi...
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Skirting the Pitfalls of Private Rentals (Practical Traveler)
(News Item #0131, 10/05/08) New York Times — To save some money on a summer vacation to Puerto Rico, Kim Gismervik decided to rent a house for her family instead of paying for multiple hotel rooms. After scouring the Web for the perfect place, ...
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