Short posts built from the same sourced data behind our rankings: what managers publish, what a hiring model actually costs, and how the numbers compare.
Every entry on this page is a dated post built from the same data behind our fee indexes and rankings. The list runs newest first. Each card prints one figure the post itself carries and links the dated record behind it, so you can tell what the post found before you click, and a byline so you know who wrote it.
The posts are not a news feed. We publish when a market check turns up something an owner can act on: a manager who starts printing a rate, a township that changes a permit fee, or a pattern in what a group of companies will and will not put in writing. When a check finds nothing new, no post appears.
Aaron Whittaker on owning a short-term rental in Glen Rose, Texas, going looking for a fair management rate, and why that search became STR Select.
Figure: Texas charges a 6% state hotel occupancy tax on a stay like the one in the post. Source: the post itself
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postOnly 2 of the 16 Poconos managers we track publish the homes they manage. We mapped all 52 by town and set each town against its AirROI revenue, occupancy and rate benchmarks.
Figure: 52 homes are published by two of the Poconos managers. Source: the post and its manager records
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postTwo of the 16 cabin management companies we track in the Smoky Mountains publish a fee. Here is what they charge and what it means for the other 14.
Figure: Two Smoky Mountains cabin managers print 10% and 20% plus $75 a month. Source: Smoky Mountains fee index
By Aaron Whittaker Read the post20 of the 23 Pocono municipalities we checked require a short term rental permit. Here is what each one actually charges, and the 8 that publish a dollar figure.
Figure: The registration post reads 23 municipal ordinances: a permit is required in twenty, and eight print a dollar figure. Source: Pocono registration records
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postThe one Smoky Mountains manager in our roster with a sourced review count, and what that count does and does not tell you.
Figure: One Smoky Mountains cabin manager publishes a numbered review total. Source: Smoky Mountains ranking
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postWhat each model actually does, what it costs on a real Poconos property, and how to tell which one fits your rental.
Figure: On a $60,000 year the two published Poconos rates are 25% of net rent and 12% plus $1,000. Source: Poconos fee index
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postTwo of the 16 short-term rental managers we track in the Poconos publish a fee. Here is what they charge and what it means for everyone else.
Figure: The Poconos index records the two published rates: 25% of net rent and 12% plus $1,000. Source: Poconos fee index
By Aaron Whittaker Read the postThe Poconos fee index covers a roster of sixteen across the Poconos and its towns. The Smoky Mountains fee index covers a cabin roster of sixteen across Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. The registration post reads 23 municipal ordinances and fee schedules. Each index row prints the company name, the rate or its absence, the source domain and the checked date, so any reader can repeat the check.
The figure on each card is the smallest sourced number that tells you what the post found: 50 published homes, a rate from two of them, and a permit rule in twenty. None of them is an estimate, and none is rounded to make a headline.
No ranking is sold to a company. The fee indexes behind these posts list every manager we evaluated, including the ones that publish nothing, and the scored order comes from the published methodology rather than from an advertising agreement.
We also do not publish a post per market on a schedule. A market with no new sourced fact keeps its fee index and ranking and gets no blog entry. That is why the list is short and why the dates are spaced out: each one marks a check, not a calendar slot.