Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select ranks Destination Big Bear #2 of 5 ranked short term rental managers in Big Bear Lake (9 evaluated), with facts checked October 2026.
Full service short term rental management · Big Bear Lake, California
Best for: Owners who want a printed management percentage, annual 1099s and city or county tax paid every quarter.
Destination Big Bear answers “What is your management fee?” with “27%” in an owner FAQ on its own site, the only own rate printed among the 9 Big Bear managers we evaluated. Its owner page lists 1099s provided annually, monthly statements, annual revenue reports, city or county tax paid every quarter with detailed rent reports from all sources, and a check-in office open 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It prints no founding year and no portfolio count.
| Service area | Big Bear Lake, with a check-in office open 7 days a week, per its own site source |
| Base | Big Bear Lake, California |
| Management fee | 27% management fee, per the owner FAQ on its own site checked October 2026 |
| Portfolio | Not disclosed as a count |
No verified property list on record for Destination Big Bear in Big Bear Lake. As of October 25, 2026, Destination Big Bear posts no portfolio for Big Bear Lake on destinationbigbear.com that we could find. A ledger for Destination Big Bear starts from a list Destination Big Bear publishes itself, so Destination Big Bear’s ledger stays empty until Destination Big Bear lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Destination Big Bear can read Destination Big Bear’s pages on destinationbigbear.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Destination Big Bear sits in the Big Bear Lake evaluation as rank 2 of 5, and the Destination Big Bear figures for Big Bear Lake below are the ones we hold on record for Destination Big Bear in Big Bear Lake. 1 ranked manager sits above Destination Big Bear and 3 sit below Destination Big Bear; 4 more companies were evaluated beside Destination Big Bear without a rank.
| Position of Destination Big Bear | Rank 2 of 5 ranked, 9 evaluated in Big Bear Lake |
| Model | Full service |
| Published fee | 27% management fee, per the owner FAQ on its own site, checked October 2026 |
| Base | Big Bear Lake, California |
| Service area | Big Bear Lake, with a check-in office open 7 days a week, per its own site |
| Portfolio | Not disclosed as a count |
| Fee checked | October 2026 |
| Market page checked for Destination Big Bear | October 24, 2026 |
Destination Big Bear is one of 9 managers in the Big Bear Lake evaluation, and the Destination Big Bear figures below set Destination Big Bear against the rest of the Big Bear Lake market, with the destinationbigbear.com record as the reference point for Destination Big Bear.
Destination Big Bear publishes 27% management fee; the owner FAQ answers “What is your management fee?” with “27%”, checked Oct 24 2026.
Of the 5 ranked Big Bear Lake peers of Destination Big Bear, 1 print a fee with a number, and Destination Big Bear is one of them.
| Typical range in Big Bear Lake to hold Destination Big Bear against | Only one local manager prints its own percentage, so no typical range is stated |
| Managers publishing a rate, Destination Big Bear included or not | 1 of 9 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Big Bear Lake row of Destination Big Bear | October 2026 |
| Ranked managers in Big Bear Lake with a published fee, Destination Big Bear included or not | 1 of 5 |
Inside the Big Bear Lake ranking, Destination Big Bear sits at rank 2 next to Big Bear Lakefront Cabins at rank 1 and Wander Vacation Rentals at rank 3, and in Big Bear Lake the order between Destination Big Bear, Big Bear Lakefront Cabins and Wander Vacation Rentals follows the printed methodology.
Destination Big Bear is based at Big Bear Lake, California and runs a full service management model, as stated on destinationbigbear.com.
For Big Bear Lake, Destination Big Bear states its service area as big Bear Lake, with a check-in office open 7 days a week, per its own site.
Destination Big Bear lists its management fee in Big Bear Lake as 27% management fee, per the owner FAQ on its own site. We read that on October 2026.
For the contract terms of Destination Big Bear in Big Bear Lake we read destinationbigbear.com/blog/why-choose-destination-big-bear-management-company on October 24, 2026, and none of those Destination Big Bear pages prints a notice period for Destination Big Bear, a minimum term or an early termination fee for Big Bear Lake.
Destination Big Bear describes its portfolio as not disclosed as a count.
The ranked order in Big Bear Lake reads 1. Big Bear Lakefront Cabins, 2. Destination Big Bear, 3. Wander Vacation Rentals, 4. Big Bear Vacations and 5. Grizzly Vacation Rentals, and Destination Big Bear is rank 2 in it.
Among the 5 ranked managers in Big Bear Lake, 5 managers state full service, and Destination Big Bear is listed as full service.
Of the 9 managers on record in Big Bear Lake, 5 managers print a service area on their own sites; Destination Big Bear is one of the managers that print a service area.
4 other managers were evaluated in Big Bear Lake without a rank, outside the ranked order above.
Destination Big Bear has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Destination Big Bear page for Big Bear Lake comes from destinationbigbear.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Destination Big Bear in Big Bear Lake, not from Destination Big Bear.
Destination Big Bear appears in Big Bear Lake with 6 sources across 1 outside domain, each listed under Sources for Destination Big Bear with the date we read it.
These are the 3 questions to put to Destination Big Bear before you sign in Big Bear Lake, with what Destination Big Bear has published on each Big Bear Lake point at destinationbigbear.com and what the record for Destination Big Bear still lacks.
Every figure on the Destination Big Bear page for Big Bear Lake carries the date we checked it for Destination Big Bear, and the latest check on file in Big Bear Lake is October 2026. Each Destination Big Bear figure for Big Bear Lake comes from destinationbigbear.com or an official source about Destination Big Bear, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Destination Big Bear publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Destination Big Bear. Homes on record for Destination Big Bear in Big Bear Lake are only those Destination Big Bear listed itself or self-reported through the Destination Big Bear claim flow, and the Destination Big Bear government facts for Big Bear Lake come from the .gov page read for Destination Big Bear that day. The place of Destination Big Bear in the Big Bear Lake order follows the published methodology, and Destination Big Bear cannot buy a better one.
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