The 10 Best Short Term Rental Management Companies in the US (2026)

2. Evolve Score 58.5/100

Best for: Owners who want a published, tiered percentage fee with no signed term and are comfortable handling cleaning and local maintenance outside the fee

Evolve is one of only two companies on this list that prints an exact percentage without a sales call: 10% on its Core tier, 15% on Plus, rising to a custom Pro rate, plus a $250 onboarding charge. That transparency is the whole case for it. The published scope is lighter than the full-service names above it: the page lists marketing, dynamic pricing, 24/7 remote support and a damage guarantee, but never states who handles cleaning or on-the-ground maintenance, only a "vetted on-the-ground support network" whose cost allocation is not described. There is no signed term and a six month satisfaction refund on the management fee. Evolve's own site does not publish how many states or total properties it covers, so take the marketing-only reputation with the caveat that its own pages do not confirm or deny it beyond what is listed above.

3. RedAwning Score 53/100

Best for: Owners who want a published fee range and AI-driven distribution across many channels, and who do not need a single confirmed headline number

RedAwning is the distribution-first option on this list: its Manage tier for homeowners prices at 10 to 18 percent, one of only three companies here with any published percentage, while its Platform tier serves larger managers rather than individual owners. The company claims 14-plus years of experience and reach into "10,000+ destinations," but its own page contradicts itself on scale: the visible text says 20,000-plus properties worldwide while the page's structured data says over 100,000, a gap of 5x that we are reporting rather than resolving, since neither figure carries a date or a "per their site as of" qualifier beyond the page itself. Cancellation is handled through a feature called FLEXStep that "loosens" as check-in nears, but the specific notice terms are not published.

4. Vacasa Score 46/100

Best for: Owners who want the largest published footprint and full service with no signed term, and who are comfortable with an unpublished fee

Vacasa is the largest name on this list by its own numbers: 41 states plus four countries and either 38,000 or more than 40,000 homes, depending which figure on its own "Fast facts" page you read; we report both rather than pick one. It has run since 2009 and its owners page lists a full scope, cleaning, maintenance, guest screening, local staff and tax help included under one fee, with no fixed contract and unlimited owner holds. The fee itself is still not published anywhere on vacasa.com, so you will not know your number until a consultation. The most important 2026 fact is on Vacasa's own site: its property management is transitioning to parent company Casago, so a prospective owner should ask whether a new sign-up lands under the Vacasa brand or moves straight to Casago's terms.

2026 note: Vacasa's own owners page states its property management "services are transitioning to our parent company, Casago," which is why Casago is the company to evaluate for Vacasa's future terms.

5. AvantStay Score 41.5/100

Best for: Owners of larger or premium homes who want a single full-service fee and are comfortable with a 12-month term and a quote-only rate

AvantStay positions itself for owners who want everything handled under one roof: marketing, guest management, operations and financial reporting, split between AvantStay's direct management and AvantStay Real Estate Inc., a licensed real estate subsidiary used depending on state. The reported footprint runs from 2,500 to 3,000-plus homeowners (the two figures appear on different AvantStay pages) across 140-plus markets in 19 states, with headquarters in Los Angeles. The standard term is a 12-month agreement, a real commitment compared to the no-lock-in national brands above, and the fee itself is a percentage of gross booking revenue set in a consultation rather than published outright.

6. Casago Score 36/100

Best for: Owners who want a locally-operated franchise office with full-service scope and more than two decades of brand history, and who do not need a published fee to decide

Casago runs on a franchise model: each local office is "locally owned and operated," which is the closest thing on this list to the regional-specialist feel of a market like the Poconos, but under a single national full-service brand with over 20 years of claimed experience and a Portland, Oregon headquarters. Service scope is comprehensive by its own description, marketing, booking, guest screening, housekeeping, maintenance and 24/7 support, distributed across more than 25 listing sites. Nothing on casago.com states a fee, a property count or a specific state list, so the research trail stops at "turnkey" and a short destination list of named example markets. The company is also the named destination for Vacasa's transitioning management business, which will likely change its scale and terms during 2026.

2026 note: Casago is also named on Vacasa's own owners page as the parent company Vacasa's management is transitioning to, so Casago's eventual combined scale will be larger than what casago.com alone states today.

7. Grand Welcome Score 26/100

Best for: Owners comparing a mid-size, growing franchise network where management fee and service list are not yet public and must be requested directly

Grand Welcome publishes some of the thinnest scope detail on this list: a 2,200-plus property count and a 21-state destination list (with a couple of markets referenced outside that selector, including New Hampshire in copy and Nevada on a sampled listing), but no fee, no founding year, no headquarters and no service breakdown on the pages we checked. One individual listing names "Grand Welcome Real Estate LLC" as the licensed entity behind it, the only concrete answer this list found anywhere to who actually holds a Grand Welcome listing. It is a real, growing network with a franchise arm, but an owner evaluating it today is working from a property count and a map, not a fee sheet.

8. iTrip Vacations Score 23/100

Best for: Owners who prefer a locally-run office inside a national franchise brand and are willing to get pricing and scope directly from that local office

iTrip Vacations is a franchise brand built on local operators, not a single national team: the site describes its property managers as local business owners who personally oversee the homes on their own patch, and names at least one, Beaches Of Alabama LLC, as an example. That structure is the appeal and the research limit at once. Fee, headquarters, founding year and total property count are not published on itrip.net; the site states "over 100 Destinations" and "thousands" of managed rentals without turning either into a hard number. An owner should expect the real answers, fee and scope, to come from whichever local iTrip franchise covers their market, not from the national site.

9. Natural Retreats Score 21/100

Best for: Owners of mountain or luxury vacation homes in one of its six states who want a boutique, brand-collection operator rather than a mass-market national name

Natural Retreats reads as the boutique, luxury-leaning option here: six states, all mountain or coastal destination markets (Mammoth Lakes, Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs, Breckenridge, Summit County, the Florida Emerald and Forgotten Coasts, Sun Valley, Big Sky, Whitefish and Park City), and a stated "Collection of Brands" that includes 360 Blue, Callista Vacations, Yellowstone Luxury Tours and Shuttle to Big Sky. Fee, scope detail, property count and founding year are not published on the pages we checked. The brand collection structure also means an owner in, say, the Florida Gulf Coast may actually be dealing with 360 Blue's terms rather than a single unified Natural Retreats contract, worth confirming directly before assuming the parent brand's reputation carries over.

10. Vtrips Score 16/100

Best for: Owners who already have a Vtrips relationship or are comparing it against better-documented names before requesting a quote

Vtrips is the thinnest public record on this list: a Jacksonville, Florida headquarters address is the most concrete fact its own site gives up. There is no published fee, service list, market count, property count or founding year on the pages we checked, only a page title confirming it offers vacation rental management and a link out to a real estate brokerage arm. That is not evidence the company is a poor fit, only that an owner cannot do any of this comparison from vtrips.com alone and will need a direct conversation to get the basics other companies on this list publish outright.