A new book just hitting the marketplace will be a welcome guide to many cash strapped owners of vacation and second homes in this difficult real estate environment. Making Money on Your Vacation Rental Home is the title of this detailed "how to" book recently published by Howard Jones, a CPA and licensed real estate broker who has owned and managed his own vacation rental homes. Subtitled An Essential Handbook for Managing Your Short Term Vacation and Resort Rental Property for Maximum Enjoyment and Profit, this comprehensive 400 page handbook includes a chapter by chapter guide for rental home owners who wish to take advantage of the new opportunity that has emerged in recent years to self manage their rental homes by using commercial rental web sites. Besides covering owner rental management, specifics are provided on related topics such as maintaining the necessary computer resources and the tax implications for buying, selling and owning vacation homes.