Rent your home during spring training

Sports Event Rentals, a Phoenix, Ariz.- based company that connects property owners with fans looking to rent private homes, condos, apartments and even yachts during major sporting events, announced it is offering Fort Myers homeowners the ability to list their homes for rent during the upcoming 2010 spring training season for a $99 flat fee with no commission.

The Web site, www.sportseventrentals. com, is the first major sporting eventthemed rental site to feature listings for more than 300 major sporting events in more than 150 cities across the globe and one of the first that does not require lengthy contracts or monthly fees.

“We designed Sports Event Rentals to make it easy and affordable for homeowners to list their properties and at the same time provide a great experience for potential renters to find a place to stay,” said Robert Hayes, chief executive officer of Sports Event Rentals. “With our service, property owners can update or edit their listings at any time and even leave them up for as long as a year if they like.”

The site’s listings include a wide range of properties, from vacation homes and city apartments to beachfront cottages and luxury homes, and it is organized for intuitive navigation by event, sport or location. The company also provides its listing customers with the flexibility and freedom to set their own rental fee and rental length, as well as the ability to communicate directly with potential renters.

To make the service simple for property owners, listings are easily uploaded to the site using a custom content management system that enables even novice users to create an attractive listing complete with standard amenity descriptions, fields for custom descriptions and the ability to upload up to 12 images.

“Homeowners that list with Sports Event Rentals will get the widest visibility available for their rental because we take advantage of the latest in search engine optimization and promotion techniques,” said Mr. Hayes. “And because we focus exclusively on sporting event rentals, our site receives targeted traffic by people looking for distinctive, convenient local accommodations at major events.” ¦