What would the first blog entry be without a big “Welcome to PickPackGo!”

Down the road, the PickPackGo team will be commenting here about travel and technology, the vacation rental industry, traveling with friends and taking multi-generational family vacations. We’ll also fill you in on new additions to our site and controversial (at least internally) features being developed.

By better connecting renters, property managers and owners in this forum and on our site, we believe renting a vacation property can become as mainstream as renting a hotel room.

Our founding team has worked together for the past 15 years on a wide variety of software products and services for Silicon Valley companies. We love building products that we can actually use ourselves and along the way, we’ve managed to find millions of others in the same boat.

We started PickPackGo because as renters and owners, we had similar experiences with vacation homes. Without a recommendation, it wasn’t easy to find a place or qualify a renter, and often we were amazed at just how long the rental process took. There had to be an easier way to do it, but we couldn’t find one, so we decided to build one ourselves.

We’ve pulled together a team of people and some great ideas to solve this problem. We want to make PickPackGo the best place to find, compare and rent a vacation property online. At the same time, PickPackGo will be the best place for property managers and owners to advertise and market vacation rentals. If you haven’t seen the site, here’s a quick look:

PickPackGo differs from other vacation rental listing sites in some immediately apparent ways (like our new website design and free listings). As we get going, we think you’ll discover many more reasons property managers and owners will benefit and renters will keep coming back. In the meantime, we invite you to take a look around and let us know what you think!