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Share your funniest rental experience and…
You could win $500 and be featured in our traveler email newsletter!

If you have a strange, outlandish, or just plain funny story about renting your vacation home, send it to FlipKey and be entered to win a $500 VISA gift card. The winning story will also be featured in the FlipKey traveler newsletter.
Second and third place winners will each receive a $50 VISA gift card. All stories must be submitted via email to rentalstories@flipkey.com by July 31, 2011, so send us your story today!
Here’s How it Works:
1. Write a story about your funniest rental experiences (you can submit up to 5 stories).
2. Each story must be 1,000 words or less.
3. Submit your entry to rentalstories@flipkey.com by July 31, 2011 with the following information:
- Your Name and Company Name (if applicable)
- Link to Your Property Listing (example: www.flipkey.com/p116954)
- Contact Phone
- Contact Email
- Funniest Rental Story (enter up to 5 stories)
4. FlipKey will pick the funniest stories and the winner will receive a $500 VISA gift card and promotion in FlipKey’s traveler newsletter. The two runners-up will each receive a $50 VISA gift card.
5. Know someone with a side-splitting vacation rental story? We welcome stories from any vacation rental owner, so tell your friends!
Even the most successful and seasoned vacation renters have had some very unexpected experiences with their guests. Now is your opportunity to share these hilarious, unusual, and occasionally bizarre stories. Don’t be shy!
Too many hilarious guest encounters to just pick one? Don’t Worry. Submit up to 5 funny rental stories to FlipKey. We will decide which gets the best laugh!
For additional contest details, see the FlipKey Rental Story Contest Official Rules.

