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Villa Rental by Owner Grows in Bali

Direct rental from owners has been a popular rental model for well over a decade in both Europe and North America. One of the most popular sites, VRBO -- Villa Rental By Owner -- now boasts over 140,000 villas! The VRBO collection features primarily units in Europe and North America. There are very few units in Asia in general, but their inventory for Bali and Thailand is showing signs of slow growth.

Review: Amertha Villas

We recently had the chance to stay at the Amertha Villas in Pemuteran. Pemuteran is not a destination often associated with villa accommodations and indeed the arrival of villas in this area of Bali is fairly new. The area is more typically associated with backpacker type accommodations and mid-priced resort properties, all catering to the snorkeling and diving crowd that flock to Menjangan Island. From what we can see, with the notable exception of the long-standing luxury property Puri Ganesha, operators in the region are still struggling with the concept.

The Bali Villa Forum

Since the launch of the site earlier this year, we've seen a dramatic increase in the number of questions we receive from site visitors. The questions most frequently ask us for recommendations of properties, or sometimes for information about a specific property.

While we try to answer them all to the best of our ability, our knowledge is miniscule compared to the knowledge of the community of users of this site. Accordingly, in an effort to help leverage that community knowledge to the benefit of all, we've opened a Discussion Forum on this website.

The Bali villa forum is a simple discussion board that lets you post questions or comments or respond to others. We encourage you to visit and share what you know about Bali villas. We're provided areas for Agents as well and we do welcome people to post links to their properties / agencies.

(A Word to the Wise: While we allow links as a way to share knowledge, we do restrict the privilege to legitimate villa-related business! If your content is not villa-related or if we receive complaints about sites, the link will be coming down!)