93 Airbnb and Vacation Rental Management Companies in the US (August 2026)

Choosing among Airbnb management companies is unusually hard for one reason: most of them will not tell you the price. Some publish a rate on their website; most quote privately after a sales call, which makes a side-by-side comparison impossible until you have several proposals in hand.

This directory sets out what each of the major US vacation rental management companies actually discloses, what their pricing model covers, and the questions that make two proposals comparable.

The short answer

Among national short-term rental management companies, published rates start around 10% of revenue for reduced-scope models and reach about 20% for genuinely hands-off full service. Several of the largest operators publish nothing and quote per property.

The percentage matters far less than what sits underneath it — a 10% arrangement usually leaves local cleaning and on-site support with the owner.

Which management companies publish their fees?

The table below lists only what each company states on its own website, read on 31 July 2026. Where a company does not publish a rate, the cell says so rather than substituting a third-party estimate — many of the ranges circulating online originate from rival management companies rather than from the company itself.

Two things stand out. First, only three of these publish a number at all, and two of them publish the same number while meaning different things by it. Second, the companies that do not publish are among the largest — so the more market share an operator has, the less likely you are to find its price before speaking to sales.

What the pricing models actually mean

Comparing percentages across models is the single most common mistake owners make. The same 10% buys wildly different amounts of work:

• Full service: the manager handles marketing, pricing, bookings, guest communication and the physical work — turnover cleaning coordination, restocking, inspections, maintenance and on-site guest support. You do nothing.
• Half service: the manager runs listing, pricing, distribution and guest messaging. Cleaning, restocking and on-site response stay with the owner, sometimes with access to a vetted vendor network.
• Remote / tech-enabled: similar scope to half service, but local tasks are coordinated from a distance rather than performed by local staff.
• Co-host: a lighter arrangement, often per-property or per-task, common with smaller regional operators.
• Franchise: a national brand, but your market is operated by an independent local owner. Service quality and pricing are set locally, so the brand name tells you less than usual.

In plain English: the percentage tells you how much you pay, never what you get. Before you compare two numbers, confirm they buy the same job.

Is 10% or 20% management cheaper for your property?

Take a home grossing ~$72,000 a year. The gap between a 10% partner-style arrangement and 20% full service is exactly $7,200. That turns a vague comparison into one answerable question: can you arrange local cleaning coordination, restocking, inspections and on-site guest response for less than $7,200 a year?

If you live nearby and already have a cleaner you trust, the answer is often yes and the lower rate wins outright. If you are in another state with no vendor bench, buying that coverage piecemeal usually costs more — in money and in attention. Our guide to vacation rental management works the numbers through a full year.

Company reviews and alternatives

Detailed write-ups for the largest national operators, each covering published fees, contract terms and the alternatives worth comparing:

• Vacasa alternatives — why the fee is not published, what the Casago acquisition changed, and what to ask a franchise operator.
• Evolve alternatives — Core 10% vs Plus 15%, the $250 onboarding fee, and what half service leaves with you.
• Awning review — what “starts at 10%” means in practice and how remote coordination behaves when something breaks.
• AvantStay vs Vacasa — two full-service operators, neither publishing a rate, compared on scope and structure.

All 93 management companies, grouped by size

The full list of US vacation rental and Airbnb management companies we track, as of August 2026. Grouped by scale, because a national giant and a two-market local operator are not competing for the same owner.

The fee column is deliberately sparse. A rate appears only where we read it on the company’s own website. A dash means we could not verify a published rate — not that the company is expensive, and not that it hides its pricing. We would rather show a gap than an invented number.

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Regional

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Software and remote-assistant tools

These are not management companies in the same sense — they are tools an owner uses to self-manage, or remote assistants who handle messaging without touching the property. They appear here because owners routinely compare them against a manager, and the choice is a genuinely different one: software replaces the desk work, not the person who drives to the property.

If you are weighing software against a manager, the honest split is this. AI messaging and pricing tools do the parts a manager also does from a desk, for a fraction of the cost. What they cannot do is meet a guest, inspect a home or solve a broken lock at 9pm.

Our own AI tool for self-managing hosts is BnB Genius, built for owners with one to five listings who want the automation without the management fee.

Why do so few management companies publish a price?

It is worth understanding the reasons, because some of them are legitimate and some are not, and telling them apart tells you a lot about who you are dealing with.

The legitimate reason is that properties genuinely differ. A one-bedroom condo with a lockbox and a two-night average stay is a different operation from a six-bedroom lakefront house with a hot tub, a dock and guests who call at midnight.

Turnover frequency, travel time between properties, seasonality and local labour costs all move the real cost of servicing a home. A company operating in 400 destinations cannot honestly publish one number that fits all of them.

The less legitimate reason is anchoring. If you see the price first, you evaluate everything else against it. If you see a revenue projection first and the price only after a discovery call, the same rate feels smaller. That ordering is a deliberate sales technique, and it is why so many quotes arrive attached to an impressive gross-revenue figure.

There is also a third reason that nobody advertises: an unpublished rate can differ between two owners on the same street. That is not necessarily unfair — one home may be genuinely more work — but it does mean the number you are offered may reflect how you negotiated rather than what the service costs.

• Ask why the rate is not published. “Every property is different” is a fair answer if it comes with the specific factors that move your quote.
• Ask for the range in your market. A company that will not name a floor and a ceiling for a market it operates in is telling you something.
• Ask for the rate before the projection. If they will only give you a number after showing you what you could earn, note that and read the proposal twice.
• Ask what would move it. A manager who can say “bedrooms, turnover frequency and drive time” is pricing the work; one who cannot is pricing you.

None of this makes a custom-quote manager a bad choice. Plenty of excellent regional operators quote per property because their portfolio is small enough for that to be honest. It simply means the burden of comparison falls on you, and the only way to carry it is to force every proposal onto the same six points listed above.

What to ask before signing with any manager

Owners routinely switch managers over a fee percentage and end up worse off, because the headline rate is one of six variables. Get all six in writing before you sign anything:

• The rate for your property — not a range and not a starting point.
• What the rate covers — cleaning coordination, restocking, inspections, on-site guest support: included, billed separately, or yours?
• Setup cost — onboarding, photography, listing creation, property preparation. A one-time charge is normal; an undisclosed one is not.
• Maintenance markup — vendor invoices passed through at cost, or with a coordination percentage added?
• Contract length, notice period and termination fee — and whether reservations already booked transfer.
• Who owns the listing account — if it is theirs, leaving means a new listing and a review history that starts at zero.

That last point is the most expensive detail in the entire decision and it never appears on a fee comparison. The vacation rental management FAQ has the full list in a form you can paste into an email.

How do I judge whether a manager is performing?

Agree the benchmark before you sign, not after a disappointing season. Without an agreed number, a weak year is always explained by the market and a good year is always credited to the manager.

Set targets for occupancy, average nightly rate and response time, and check them against what your market actually supports — Airbnb occupancy rates by city gives you the real figures rather than a projection.

Be especially careful with revenue projections presented before a rate. A projection is a forecast produced by the party who benefits from you accepting it, and it is usually gross of the management fee, cleaning and platform costs. Ask what occupancy it assumes and what happens if it misses.

Should I choose a national brand or a local manager?

In most vacation markets the strongest option is a regional operator with people on the ground, not a national footprint. National brands bring systems and distribution; local managers bring someone who can be at the property in twenty minutes. Franchise models sit awkwardly between the two — a national name, locally operated.

We publish market-by-market comparisons that put local operators next to the national brands, including Breckenridge, Colorado, Park City, Utah, Maui, Hawaii, Asheville, North Carolina, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Ocean City, Maryland, Seattle, Washington and South Miami Heights, Florida.

City-level pages cover Las Vegas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Brooklyn.

If your market is not listed, find an Airbnb manager near you.

How One Fine BnB prices management

One Fine BnB publishes both of its rates, which is the reason this directory exists in the form it does.

Full Service Management is 20% — professional listing creation and photography, dynamic pricing, 24/7 guest communication, booking management across platforms, turnover cleaning coordination, restocking, inspections, maintenance coordination and on-site guest support as needed.

Partner Management is 10% for owners who keep their own local team, covering listing optimization, pricing, bookings and 24/7 guest communication while the owner provides local cleaning, restocking and on-site support.

A one-time $500 onboarding retainer covers setup — photography, listing creation and property preparation — and after that we are paid only when you are paid. There are no long-term contracts. Properties that need extras such as in-person meet-and-greets at every check-in may be quoted above 20% based on scope; we would rather state that here than surprise you in a proposal.

Founded in 2010, the company reports a $2.3B+ managed portfolio, a 92% owner-retention rate and occupancy 51% above the market average.

Sources and method

Published fees were read from each company’s own website on 31 July 2026 and are stated as of that date; companies change pricing without notice, so treat this as a snapshot rather than a live quote. Where a company does not publish a rate, this page says so instead of substituting an estimate.

Models and headquarters come from our own management-company dataset. We publish no star ratings or review scores for other companies — we have not been their customer and we compete with them, so a score from us would not be evidence.

Disclosure: One Fine BnB is a management company and competes with the companies named here. Every figure comes from each company’s own website and is dated July 2026.