Siesta Key vacation rental business launches national company

Heather Plampin founded a vacation rental management business out of near-broke desperation. Now, with attention to detail — and marketing — she’s targeting clients outside the region.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. July 28, 2023
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Heather Plampin founded The Cottages on the Key in 2008.
Heather Plampin founded The Cottages on the Key in 2008.
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Some 20 years ago Heather Plampin had a booming home renovation business, especially doing work after Hurricane Charley ripped through Charlotte County. 

But that business nearly evaporated when the housing market tanked and work dried up. Plampin and her father Roger Van Wie, also in real estate, “both just got wiped out,” she says.  

 

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