Houston, Ike, Rentals and Aide

Good evening.

I've see more than my fair share of ads since the power is on and live in downtown Houston to realize that this has been tragic. People are still displaced and without power. (I'm poaching wireless from a neighbor streets away).

Where am I going with this? The Red-Cross has had 3 hurricanes in a month and are over $5mm underfunded. The Houston food bank needs 500,000 lbs. food a day and people ARE starving/unsheltered.

It's now a goal of mine to establish a vacation rental website that will offer those displaced to live. Continuing, a charitable contribution can be made to one of several charities (depending on the disaster, eg tsunami, hurricane any instance of mass destruction). Here those that have the means to stay elsewhere have the resource to find a home, those that have a home can contribute as well by a charitable contribution, assisting in food/shelters for those less fortunate, and above all, we will contribute a percentage (or dollar amount) of each home listing and any review of the stay to any determined charity.

Vacaconnect.com



Jason

Just for starters...

With an increasing spiraling downward economy, we recently have decided to list our home in Houston with the ever-so-popular homeaway.com. Now they've recently changed their site to where we have a very limited amount of photos, but the upshot is, if I need to purchase some vaseline, there is an ad right there. Thanks guys, that really helps justify the price.

How about instead of cluttering up with all those ads just for an extra nickle, decide to give back a bit. And I'm not talking about your new campaign to build 2 homes after the destruction from Hurricane Ike, or your $10,000 giveaway (don't get me wrong, I feel it's a great act), I just feel with having hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, that something on a grander scale would be a bit more appropriate.

I've got to run, I see on homeaway's site that there's a sale at JC Penny's.