Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select ranks DesertHosts #1 of 4 ranked short term rental managers in Joshua Tree (10 evaluated), with facts checked October 2026.
Full service short term rental management · Twentynine Palms, California
Best for: Owners who want a printed fee range and help with the county permit application.
DesertHosts is the only Joshua Tree manager we found that prints both a management fee range and a price for permit help: a 15 to 25% management fee and an optional permit application service at $400, both on its own management page. It describes itself as a boutique, family run company based in Twentynine Palms with teams in Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Landers, Wonder Valley and Palm Springs. Its page lists guest communication, cleaning coordination, guest screening, restocking and 24 hour local availability. It does not publish a tenure or a portfolio count.
| Service area | Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Landers, Wonder Valley and Palm Springs, per its own site source |
| Base | Twentynine Palms, California |
| Management fee | 15 to 25% management fee; optional permit application service at $400 checked October 2026 |
| Portfolio | No count or tenure printed on its site |
No verified property list on record for DesertHosts in Joshua Tree. As of October 25, 2026, DesertHosts posts no portfolio for Joshua Tree on deserthosts.com that we could find. A ledger for DesertHosts starts from a list DesertHosts publishes itself, so DesertHosts’s ledger stays empty until DesertHosts lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing DesertHosts can read DesertHosts’s pages on deserthosts.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →DesertHosts sits in the Joshua Tree evaluation as rank 1 of 4, and the DesertHosts figures for Joshua Tree below are the ones we hold on record for DesertHosts in Joshua Tree. 0 ranked managers sit above DesertHosts and 3 sit below DesertHosts; 6 more companies were evaluated beside DesertHosts without a rank.
| Position of DesertHosts | Rank 1 of 4 ranked, 10 evaluated in Joshua Tree |
| Model | Full service |
| Published fee | 15 to 25% management fee; optional permit application service at $400, checked October 2026 |
| Base | Twentynine Palms, California |
| Service area | Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Landers, Wonder Valley and Palm Springs, per its own site |
| Portfolio | No count or tenure printed on its site |
| Fee checked | October 2026 |
| Market page checked for DesertHosts | October 21, 2026 |
DesertHosts is one of 10 managers in the Joshua Tree evaluation, and the DesertHosts figures below set DesertHosts against the rest of the Joshua Tree market, with the deserthosts.com record as the reference point for DesertHosts.
DesertHosts publishes 15 to 25% management fee; optional permit application service at $400, checked Oct 19 2026.
Other published rates in Joshua Tree that we recorded: Open Air Homes at 20% commission on the accommodation fare plus a $125 monthly platform fee; no setup fees and no binding multi-year contracts, per its Joshua Tree management page, Savvy VRM at 20 to 30% of the earnings; no hidden fees or long term contracts, and it limits the number of contracts it takes on, per its Joshua Tree page and BeenStay at 5 to 8% of revenue across its Standard and Premium tiers for Joshua Tree, with its full service tier stated for other cities only.
Of the 4 ranked Joshua Tree peers of DesertHosts, 3 print a fee with a number, and DesertHosts is one of them.
| Typical range in Joshua Tree to hold DesertHosts against | 15 to 30% of revenue across the three full service managers that print a rate, with 20% the most common |
| Managers publishing a rate, DesertHosts included or not | 4 of 10 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Joshua Tree row of DesertHosts | October 2026 |
| Ranked managers in Joshua Tree with a published fee, DesertHosts included or not | 3 of 4 |
Inside the Joshua Tree ranking, DesertHosts sits at rank 1 next to Open Air Homes at rank 2, and in Joshua Tree the order between DesertHosts and Open Air Homes follows the printed methodology.
DesertHosts is based at Twentynine Palms, California and runs a full service management model, as stated on deserthosts.com.
For Joshua Tree, DesertHosts states its service area as yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Landers, Wonder Valley and Palm Springs, per its own site.
DesertHosts lists its management fee in Joshua Tree as 15 to 25% management fee; optional permit application service at $400. We read that on October 2026.
For the contract terms of DesertHosts in Joshua Tree we read deserthosts.com/management and deserthosts.com on October 19, 2026, and none of those DesertHosts pages prints a notice period for DesertHosts, a minimum term or an early termination fee for Joshua Tree.
DesertHosts describes its portfolio as no count or tenure printed on its site.
The ranked order in Joshua Tree reads 1. DesertHosts, 2. Open Air Homes, 3. Savvy VRM and 4. The Cohost Company, and DesertHosts is rank 1 in it.
Among the 4 ranked managers in Joshua Tree, 3 managers state full service and 1 manager states co-hosting and full service, and DesertHosts is listed as full service.
Of the 10 managers on record in Joshua Tree, 2 managers print a minimum term and 4 managers print a service area on their own sites; DesertHosts is one of the managers that print a service area.
6 other managers were evaluated in Joshua Tree without a rank, outside the ranked order above.
DesertHosts has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the DesertHosts page for Joshua Tree comes from deserthosts.com and the public sources listed under Sources for DesertHosts in Joshua Tree, not from DesertHosts.
DesertHosts appears in Joshua Tree with 6 sources across 1 outside domain, each listed under Sources for DesertHosts with the date we read it.
These are the 3 questions to put to DesertHosts before you sign in Joshua Tree, with what DesertHosts has published on each Joshua Tree point at deserthosts.com and what the record for DesertHosts still lacks.
Every figure on the DesertHosts page for Joshua Tree carries the date we checked it for DesertHosts, and the latest check on file in Joshua Tree is October 2026. Each DesertHosts figure for Joshua Tree comes from deserthosts.com or an official source about DesertHosts, never from an STR Select estimate. Where DesertHosts publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to DesertHosts. Homes on record for DesertHosts in Joshua Tree are only those DesertHosts listed itself or self-reported through the DesertHosts claim flow, and the DesertHosts government facts for Joshua Tree come from the .gov page read for DesertHosts that day. The place of DesertHosts in the Joshua Tree order follows the published methodology, and DesertHosts cannot buy a better one.
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