★★★★★
Lakefront for a long weekend. Sarah was responsive at every step and the place was exactly as described. Easiest direct booking I've done all year.
Marc & Jess T.
Smith Mountain Lake
Direct vacation rentals · Locally hosted
Vacation, delivered direct.
A hand-picked collection of rentals — downtown, lakeside, slopeside. Local hosts. Live rates. The way it used to be done.
Secure booking
Payments by Stripe
Instant confirmation
24/7 self check-in
Trusted infrastructure
stripe
Payments
Locally owned & operated
SSL secured
Guesty-powered
24/7 self check-in
The Rent4Vacay way
Properties we'd send our family to.
Every rental in our collection is one we know personally — managed by us, cleaned by people we trust, and stocked the way you'd want a vacation home to be. When you book direct, you skip the platform middleman, get our best rate, and talk to the actual host. Simple as that.
Where we are
Three regions. One standard.
From the historic streets of downtown Roanoke to the quiet of Smith Mountain Lake and the slopes of Park City — we manage every property personally. The travel is yours, the details are ours.
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Roanoke & Cave Spring, VA
Downtown lofts, historic homes, and shared-house bedrooms — walking distance to the City Market, dining, and music.
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Smith Mountain Lake, VA
A lakefront condo at Bridgewater Marina with dock access and water views, forty-five minutes from the city.
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Park City, UT
Ski-in/ski-out at The Canyons. Sized for the whole crew. The mountain doesn't care which season you visit.
— 01 / Roanoke
The downtown.
Walking distance to the market, the food, the music. Restored homes and modern apartments alike, from a private bedroom in a shared house to whole-home stays for the entire family.
- Walk to the City Market & downtown dining
- 5 min to Hotel Roanoke & convention plaza
- 15 min to the Blue Ridge Parkway
- Free on-site parking at every property
— 02 / Smith Mountain Lake
The water.
Forty-five minutes from the city, an entirely different pace. A lakefront condo at the marina with dock access, water views, and the kind of quiet you have to drive to find.
- Dock access at Bridgewater Marina
- Water views from every room
- Sleeps 6 · 3 bedrooms · full kitchen
- 45 min from downtown Roanoke
— 03 / Park City, Utah
The mountains.
Ski-in/ski-out at The Canyons, sized for the whole crew. Bring the family for the season, the friends for the long weekend, or the team for an off-site that turns into a vacation.
- Direct slope access · The Canyons
- 4 bedrooms · sleeps 16
- Hot tub & resort amenities
- 35 min from SLC airport
Featured stay
1124 Chapman House.
Marquee property
Whole-house stays for the whole crew.
A private five-bedroom house one mile from downtown Roanoke. Newly renovated, fully stocked, sleeps the entire family with room for the in-laws. The kind of stay that turns a long weekend into a memory.
- 5 bedrooms · sleeps 10+
- Full kitchen & dining
- Newly renovated
- 1 mile from downtown
- Host on call
- Pet-friendly on request
The direct-booking promise.
Find any of our properties listed elsewhere for less and we'll match it — and we'll refund any platform fee you would have paid there. The math is never close.
How it works
Booking, without the friction.
No app, no account, no upselling. About two minutes from the search bar to a confirmed reservation.
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Pick your dates
Enter check-in, check-out, and party size — right at the top of the page or on the booking flow. Live availability across the collection.
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Choose your home
Compare side-by-side with the real price right on the screen. No fees added at checkout.
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You're booked
Card captured by Stripe. Confirmation email instantly. Check-in details 48 hours before you arrive.
Book direct, pay less
See the real price.
Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com all tack on service fees that get rolled into your final total. Here's what the same stay actually costs across platforms.
Total for your stay.
2 nights · representative R4V rate · all taxes included
Airbnb
Service fee · +16%
$—
via Airbnb
VRBO
Service fee · +15%
$—
via VRBO
Booking.com
Service fee · +17%
$—
via Booking
Rates are estimates based on representative nightly pricing. Actual prices vary by property, dates, and length of stay. Book direct for the lowest confirmed rate — we'll match any lower price you find elsewhere.
Why direct
The same home. Better terms.
Booking direct on this site means our lowest rate, a real person on the other end of the message, and one place to handle anything that comes up.
Lowest rate
The price you see is the price you pay. No service fees, no platform markup, no checkout-page surprises.
Talk to your host
Text or email the actual owner-host of the property. No customer-service queue, no automated triage.
Stripe-secured
The same payments infrastructure trusted by global brands. Your card never touches our servers.
Instant confirmation
Your reservation is real the moment you confirm. Check-in instructions arrive 48 hours before you do.
Flexible terms
One-night minimums in the off-season, long-stay discounts at a week. Tell us what you need and we'll work it out.
Hotel-grade prep
Linens, towels, toiletries, kitchen basics. Every property stocked the way you'd want a vacation home to be.
Locally managed
Every property has a person on the ground. If something breaks, someone shows up — not three days of email tag.
One place for everything
Booking, payment, check-in, and post-stay — one email thread, one host, one number. The simple way.
What's included
Everything you'd expect. And then some.
Every property comes stocked the way you'd want a vacation home to be — no awkward "is the soap your problem or ours?" moments at check-in.
Hotel-grade linens
Fresh sheets, duvets, pillows, and extra blankets. Made for the kind of sleep that resets a week.
Direct host contact
The actual owner of each property is one text or email away. No queue, no triage.
Smart-lock check-in
Personal door code texted the morning of arrival. Works 24/7 — drive safely, arrive whenever.
Gigabit WiFi
Fast enough to work from. Network name and password posted inside the unit.
Fully equipped kitchen
Cookware, dishware, glasses, coffee gear. Bring food, not equipment.
Stripe-secured payment
The same payments processor major brands use. PCI-DSS Level 1.
Fresh-stocked toiletries
Soap, shampoo, body wash, toilet paper, paper towels. Hotel-level prep, with a kitchen.
24/7 access
Arrive after midnight, leave before dawn. Your door code is yours for the whole stay.
Free parking
Dedicated lot or assigned spot at every property. No metered street parking.
For property owners
Got a vacation rental? We can manage it.
Twelve years of hosting, 30+ properties under management, and a 4.9-star average across 10,000+ reviews. We handle the full lifecycle — listing optimization, dynamic pricing, guest communication, cleaning coordination, maintenance — so you collect the check and we handle everything else.
Owner-friendly terms, transparent revenue reporting, and a hosting team that's been Superhost-tier on every major platform since 2014.
Listing optimization
Photo, copy, and pricing tuned across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and direct. We've ranked top-of-search for years in our markets.
Dynamic pricing
Algorithmic + manual price adjustments based on demand, events, and seasonality. Maximum revenue per night.
24/7 guest support
Your guests text us, not you. From pre-stay questions to lockouts at 2 AM, our team handles it.
Cleaning & maintenance
Trusted local cleaners scheduled around every booking. Maintenance issues flagged and resolved with same-day vendors.
Smart-lock setup
Schlage smart locks installed and managed. Door codes auto-issued per booking, auto-expired at checkout.
Revenue reporting
Monthly statements with bookings, payouts, expenses, and net to you. Tax docs ready at year-end.
12+
Years hosting
30+
Properties managed
10K+
Guest reviews
4.9★
Average rating
From our guests
Stays we're proud of.
Unedited feedback from recent stays. We collect it via SMS a few hours after every checkout.
★★★★★
Booked a whole house for my mom's seventieth. Eight of us, full kitchen, walking distance to dinner. Every detail had been thought through.
Daniela P.
Roanoke
★★★★★
Family ski week at The Canyons. Door code worked, hot tub worked, every detail considered. Booked again for next season the week we got home.
Ryan H.
Park City
★★★★★
Just a private bedroom — nothing fancy needed for a quick work trip. But the check-in was seamless and the place was spotless. Will absolutely book this style again.
Kim L.
Roanoke · Downtown
★★★★★
We've used Airbnb forever and assumed direct booking was a hassle. It wasn't. Took two minutes, saved the service fee, and got the same property. Why is everyone not doing this?
Antonio M.
801 Campbell · Unit 1
★★★★★
Our hosts texted us about a thunderstorm coming in on check-out morning and offered late checkout so we could wait it out. The kind of touch that no platform can do.
Emily R.
White Pelican Lane