Meta descriptions that get clicked
Your meta description is the short paragraph under your title in search results. It has no direct effect on ranking — and a large effect on whether anyone clicks through.
Think of the meta description as the one sentence you'd say to someone standing at your door deciding whether to come in. What makes this place worth clicking, right now, compared to the five other results on the same page? Usually it's a concrete detail: distance to something specific, a feature other listings in the area don't mention, or who the place suits (families, remote workers, groups).
Avoid description text that could describe literally any rental: "beautiful home in a great location" could be true of anything and convinces no one. Specifics do the opposite job — they filter in the right visitor and filter out the wrong one, which is exactly what you want from a result that costs you nothing to show but costs you a wasted click if the wrong person lands on the page.
Search engines sometimes rewrite your description in results if they judge another snippet from the page answers the search better. Writing one good, specific paragraph near the top of the actual page content — not just in the meta tag — makes it more likely that if a description does get rewritten, it's still a sentence you'd be happy to have representing you.
One description per page, matched to that page. A single description reused across every property on a multi-listing site reads, to both visitors and search engines, as a site that didn't bother looking at its own pages.