About Engaged Destinations
Engaged Destinations is a family company. We own and operate rental homes in the area we serve, and we look after every guest as we would a friend of the family — because everyone we connect with is the lifeblood of what we do.
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Our family started Engaged in Washington, D.C., as a magazine — a publication about the places and people worth knowing in a city. Telling a place well, and introducing readers to the businesses that make it, has been our work from the first issue.
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When we came to Naples, Florida, we began investing in rental homes within the city itself — Coquina Sands and the Moorings. What we found were beautiful houses that were not being managed or marketed the way they deserved: listed and forgotten, priced by habit, presented without care.
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We did it differently with our own. Every home we operated set records — the highest rents its street had seen, the fullest seasons. Owners noticed, and asked us to do the same for theirs. So we began managing and repositioning other families' homes in the area, one at a time, to the standard we hold our own to.
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Guests paying a premium for a home expect more than keys in a lockbox. So we built the platform around them: an on-call concierge, amenities in every house, and experiences with the best local businesses — restaurants, charters, chefs — arranged by us, the way you would ask a friend who lives here. Every guest has an itinerary they can share with the people travelling with them, with the whole trip planned before they land.
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Today our international distribution network markets the homes we manage — and the partners in our directory and magazine — in multiple countries, driving bookings and revenue that a listing on a single platform never could. The magazine we started with is still here, in every home and around town. And we are still a family, looking after other families' houses and holidays.
We own and operate rental homes in the area we serve. We would not put a guest in a house we would not stay in ourselves, and we would not recommend a table we have not sat at.The Engaged Destinations family
We take on few enough homes that the same people know all of them, and few enough partners that we can vouch for each. If that sounds like the family you would want looking after your house, or your guests, we would like to hear from you.
