Ah, the good old days. A simpler time, when online vacation rentals could be found, researched and booked the old fashioned way: by owner and traveler working together. The way it used to be, online travel & booking sites like VRBO had one goal: to hook up owners of vacation properties with people who wanted to stay in those vacation properties. It was easy: as an owner, you'd pay a reasonable fee (something like $100 a year), you'd list your property on the site, travel