Expedia bought HomeAway, VRBO, and VacationRentals.com in November, 2015 for $3.9 Billion. On February 19, 2016, they implemented a a service fee of between 4% to 9% on top of the listed rates if you book through directly through their website portals instead of the owner. You can avoid these fees if you book directly through the owners.
Expedia now owns Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago.com, and Orbitz.com (among others). They are becoming quite the monopoly for online housing bookings.
Thought I would give you the heads up to avoid these fees.
MichaelB
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