Shores Vacation Rentals

04/23/2025

✨New Listing✨

Enjoy a stay at this Vintage Family Retreat moments from Lake Michigan!🌊🏖

With five well-appointed bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, The Curtis Farmhouse has long been a gathering place, offering ample space for up to 14 guests. Large families, multi-generational visitors, and longtime friends will find comfort within its storied walls, where laughter echoes through the halls and new memories are made against a backdrop of history.

https://www.shoresvacationrentals.com/vacation-rental-home.asp?PageDataID=194708

04/17/2025

We have just a few Pet Friendly Luxury Home dates still available for the 2025 Summer Season - make sure to book your family vacation before it's too late, and your bestie may have to stay home. :(

To book the perfect family vacation with your furry bestie go to:
www.shoresvacationrentals.com



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Shores Vacation Rentals understands how important it is to have your best friend, protector and member of your family - not be left at home during the family...

04/02/2025

We still have a few calendar dates left to choose from - but they are filling up fast, so don't wait to reserve the perfect home for your family vacation this summer!

03/11/2025

Sneak Peek moment: We have been working hard over the winter to redo the branding and look of SVR's website. Here is snap-shot teaser for you of things to come!

03/02/2025

Call to Action: Monday, 3/3/2025 - the City of South Haven will introduce new regulations on Short-term Rentals and their Homeowners, that will have devastating effects on not just their income, but on the income of the local businesses in downtown South Haven, and many of the local contractors as well; from the electricians and plumbers to laundry and landscaping services.

The City's own economic study states

✔ STRs generate $12M+ in annual income for South Haven residents.
✔ Visitors staying in STRs spend between $25M - $35M in local businesses every year.
✔ STRs directly support over 500 jobs—many of which will disappear if these restrictions take effect.

💡 Meanwhile, the city has proposed NO plan to replace this lost income, employment, or economic activity.

This Ordinance is Based on Flawed Justifications.

The city claims STRs cause parking issues, but its own report states there is no clear link.

The city claims STR occupancy reductions will help housing affordability, but this will only force more homes into the hands of investors and second-home buyers.

The city continues to treat STRs as the cause of every problem in South Haven while failing to present real solutions for year-round housing, economic stability, or community growth.

At a time of economic uncertainty in America, with our high inflation rates, gas prices, cost of food, Tourism will already be deeply impacted - can we really afford to cripple our local businesses? Our Neighbors? Our Community?

We understand that STRs are a highly emotional issue here in South Haven for several residents - and we do believe that STRs should not be lawless. We say ENFORCE the codes that are already there as we try and find a balanced way that is based on facts and not emotion. Enforcement is key here.

Now is not the time to cripple our local economy.

If the City Council believes this WILL NOT harm the economy - prove it? Call for an Economic Study on these regulations before they are enacted.

What can you do? What are we asking you to do?

We are asking you to tell the City Council that the new STR Regulations should not move forward and should be immediately scrapped until fair and balanced solutions can be created. This involves having leaders from the Community, Short-term Rentals, Local Businesses finding solutions together.

Call the City Council. Email them. Better yet, show up and voice your opinion Monday night!

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (269) 637-0700

Individual Council Member phone listings can be found on the City of South Haven's website: www.southhavenmi.gov

Here is a link to a copy of the economic report that the City of South Haven commissioned and then ignored...

Estimating the Economic Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on the City of South Haven, Michigan
https://bit.ly/EconomicImpactsSTRs

02/17/2025

Over Valentine's - there was this cute little pop-up Arts & Craft Fair in Fennville, MI. There were so many talented people at this little fair, our jaws hit the floor and our wallets became empty!

Sisters Family Farm - is highly recommended! Jen Molenaar's food (her cookies) we just absolutely amazing - and left us wanting more!

Sisters Family Farm is truly one to experience and one to put on your "Must Try" list when you are here this summer staying with us!

01/11/2025

Very exciting!

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/01/taco-restaurant-closes-after-nearly-a-year-in-kalamazoo-moving-to-the-beach.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0kbWLoXfsTU0A7PohUgtc28aTYQps-2oGiO0VzVkmKii81Vp4M8O_DFFY_aem_Vvhc1YjaWZfy0iMX0bfFQQ

The restaurant had an outdoor seating spot at Haymarket Plaza.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!!!

11/28/2024

What a beautifully well done commercial! We just saw this commercial during the Dog Show after Macy’s Day Parade and thought we would share.

And give subtle reminder that Christmas is magically cozy in South Haven - and our homes are all Santa Certified!

Book direct with us for the Holidays and receive a copy of “Santa Certified” certification to reassure your loved one(s) that he will find them!

We have several places with chimneys too,- and several places with hot tubs as a bonus for parents.

Happy Thanksgiving. Everyone!

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10/28/2024

We ARE your Neighbors!

Contrary to the literature that is floating around about the harm the STR's are having on the South Haven economy, the City's own study on the Economic Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on the City of South Haven found that:

"The operation of short-term rentals (STRs) creates between just under 400 and almost 525 year-round jobs and generates personal income of between $11.7 million and $14.9 million in the South Haven City area.1 This accounts for between 5% to 6% of employment in the area and between 3% and 4% of the personal income of residents."

Short-term Rentals not only contribute to the local economy - but they also make the dreams of the owners possible! All of Shores Vacation Rentals properties that we managed are owned by real people - and not some investment group looking to pad their portfolio with "easy" money.

All of our owners are looking forward to the day that they can live here full time and share their home with just their family. Until they can do that, renting out their property allows them to slowly integrate into our community and it helps them to be able to afford a part of the American Dream at the same time.

Limiting the number of rentals or putting a complete moratorium on them not only benefits just a few, but it impedes on the constitutional property rights of others and harms our local economy.

Instead of Fear Mongering - maybe those of us who do not know our neighbors, should reach out and meet them when they are in town. Til then, SVR will help introduce all of you to our Owners, like Marcy Tawney and her family.

Want to know more about the We ARE your Neighbors program, or to read the Economic Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on the City of South Haven click on this link below:
https://www.shoresvacationrentals.info/neighbors

South Haven, Michigan is a very special place for so many people, their families, and their friends. There is something so magical to South Haven, that there is massive seasonal generational tourism that flows to its pristine blond sandy shores along Lake Michigan; locals from Galesburg, Comstock, K...

10/25/2024

You can make your dream vacation for 2025 come true - our calendars are open!

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10/25/2024

It begins…. 😉

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10/22/2024

This is such exciting news! As most of you know - we love The Little Store! This dill dip is big news for us here at SVR, we would tease them often about not having dill dip for their cheesey bread sticks…and tonight they through down the gauntlet and said “What’s up now!?”

So we placed an order! We are very excited to try their dill dip!

10/22/2024

We ARE your Neighbors!

Contrary to the literature that is floating around about the harm the STR's are having on the South Haven economy, the City's own study on the Economic Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on the City of South Haven found that:

"The operation of short-term rentals (STRs) creates between just under 400 and almost 525 year-round jobs and generates personal income of between $11.7 million and $14.9 million in the South Haven City area.1 This accounts for between 5% to 6% of employment in the area and between 3% and 4% of the personal income of residents."

Short-term Rentals not only contribute to the local economy - but they also make the dreams of the owners possible! All of Shores Vacation Rentals properties that we managed are owned by real people - and not some investment group looking to pad their portfolio with "easy" money.

All of our owners are looking forward to the day that they can live here full time and share their home with just their family. Until they can do that, renting out their property allows them to slowly integrate into our community and it helps them to be able to afford a part of the American Dream at the same time.

Limiting the number of rentals or putting a complete moratorium on them not only benefits just a few, but it impedes on the constitutional property rights of others and harms our local economy.

Instead of Fear Mongering - maybe those of us who do not know our neighbors, should reach out and meet them when they are in town. Til then, SVR will help introduce all of you to our Owners, like Marcy Tawney and her family.

Want to know more about the We ARE your Neighbors program, or to read the Economic Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on the City of South Haven click on this link below:
https://www.shoresvacationrentals.info/neighbors