I get some interest on my TUG Marketplace listings, but I agree it's not a particularly good interface.
I know the $100/night limit on the Last Minute Rental board has come up a lot, and the decision has been to keep the $100/night limit. I think this is the first I've ever seen a proposal for a second, "premium" Last Minute Rental board, though. This sounds like a good idea. People who don't want to look at prices over $100/night wouldn't have to.
The premium board could be 45 days or less, like the LMR board. The rule could be that people could recover fees only -- maybe annual fee, any fee for putting in a guest name, and a maximum of 3% to cover PayPal fees. If any premium listings seemed to have a price over that, the owner could be asked to document the annual fees. Probably other TUG members would be easily able to spot most weeks that were listed for more than the limit.
The two boards could be called maybe "Budget Last Minute Rentals" and "Premium Last Minute Rentals." People who own expensive weeks would have the option of listing for $100/night on Budget Last Minute Rentals, which would probably get more traffic, or "Premium Last Minute Rentals." A single week could only be listed on one board at a time. Perhaps there could be a way to remove listings from "Premium Last Minute Rentals" if any owner decided to lower their price to $100/night, or the thread on the "Premium" board could be locked so that it would fall off the front page.
Buzglyd, can you tell me what you mean? Do you email previous renters once you have booked your weeks for the upcoming year, and offer them "first dibs" on weeks similar to those they booked previously?