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Blackbird Hospitality

Last updated September 14, 2026

STR Select ranks Blackbird Hospitality #2 of 7 ranked short term rental managers in the Poconos (16 evaluated), with facts checked September 2026.

Full service co-hosting short term rental management · United States, multi market

Full service co-hostingmanagement model
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The verdict

Best for: Owners who want full service co-hosting while keeping the listing and payouts in their own name.

Blackbird Hospitality co-hosts under the owner's own listing, so you keep the listing, its review history and the payouts, and Blackbird invoices its services monthly. Its site lists daily pricing updates with competitive set analysis, 24/7 guest communication, and cleaner and maintenance coordination, and says it manages 90 plus properties. It does not publish a fee or list which Poconos towns it covers, so ask for both before you sign.

The facts

Service areaPoconos plus other US markets source
BaseUnited States, multi market
Management feeNot published checked September 2026
Portfolio90+ properties managed, per their site

Properties managed

No verified property list on record for Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos. As of October 25, 2026, Blackbird Hospitality posts no portfolio for the Poconos on blackbirdhm.com that we could find. A ledger for Blackbird Hospitality starts from a list Blackbird Hospitality publishes itself, so Blackbird Hospitality’s ledger stays empty until Blackbird Hospitality lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Blackbird Hospitality can read Blackbird Hospitality’s pages on blackbirdhm.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.

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Blackbird Hospitality at a glance

Blackbird Hospitality sits in the Poconos evaluation as rank 2 of 7, and the Blackbird Hospitality figures for Poconos below are the ones we hold on record for Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos. 1 ranked manager sits above Blackbird Hospitality and 5 sit below Blackbird Hospitality; 9 more companies were evaluated beside Blackbird Hospitality without a rank.

Position of Blackbird HospitalityRank 2 of 7 ranked, 16 evaluated in the Poconos
ModelFull service co-hosting
BaseUnited States, multi market
Service areaPoconos plus other US markets
Portfolio90+ properties managed, per their site
Fee checkedSeptember 2026
Market page checked for Blackbird HospitalityOctober 21, 2026

What are the rules where Blackbird Hospitality operates?

Blackbird Hospitality does not name a town in its record that matches one of the 23 Poconos jurisdictions we checked, so the rules below are the market picture: 20 of 23 require registration. Ask Blackbird Hospitality which of them apply to your address.

For Blackbird Hospitality, 10 of 23 Poconos jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 19 require an inspection, which a Blackbird Hospitality owner should price into year one.

The Poconos registration and tax dataset

How does Blackbird Hospitality compare with the Poconos market?

Blackbird Hospitality is one of 16 managers in the Poconos evaluation, and the Blackbird Hospitality figures below set Blackbird Hospitality against the rest of the Poconos market, with the blackbirdhm.com record as the reference point for Blackbird Hospitality.

Blackbird Hospitality lists no homes of its own. Of the 53 homes on record in the Poconos, Blackbird Hospitality holds none, because only 2 managers publish a property list, and Blackbird Hospitality is not one of them.

Of the 7 ranked Poconos peers of Blackbird Hospitality, 2 print a fee with a number, and Blackbird Hospitality is not one of them.

Typical range in the Poconos to hold Blackbird Hospitality against18 to 30% of revenue for full service, per published rates and our evaluation notes
Managers publishing a rate, Blackbird Hospitality included or not2 of 16 evaluated
Fee index updated for the Poconos row of Blackbird HospitalitySeptember 2026
Ranked managers in the Poconos with a published fee, Blackbird Hospitality included or not2 of 7

Blackbird Hospitality: the record in the Poconos

Inside the Poconos ranking, Blackbird Hospitality sits at rank 2 next to Ideal Property Management at rank 1 and Galvanized Management at rank 3, and in the Poconos the order between Blackbird Hospitality, Ideal Property Management and Galvanized Management follows the printed methodology.

Blackbird Hospitality is based at United States, multi market and runs a full service co-hosting management model, as stated on blackbirdhm.com.

For the Poconos, Blackbird Hospitality states its service area as poconos plus other US markets.

For the contract terms of Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos we read blackbirdhm.com on October 15, 2026, and the term printed at blackbirdhm.com is the one quoted on this page.

Blackbird Hospitality describes its portfolio as 90+ properties managed, per their site.

Who else is on record in the Poconos beside Blackbird Hospitality?

The ranked order in the Poconos reads 1. Ideal Property Management, 2. Blackbird Hospitality, 3. Galvanized Management, 4. Pocono Pads, 5. Pocono Mountain Rentals, 6. True North Vacation Rentals and 7. Three Daughters Properties, and Blackbird Hospitality is rank 2 in it.

Among the 7 ranked managers in the Poconos, 4 managers state full service, 1 manager states full service co-hosting, 1 manager states full service, in house team and 1 manager states online management or full service tiers, and Blackbird Hospitality is listed as full service co-hosting.

Of the 16 managers on record in the Poconos, 3 managers print a notice period, 4 managers print a minimum term, 3 managers print an early termination term, 7 managers print a service area and 1 manager prints a founding year on their own sites; Blackbird Hospitality is one of the managers that print a notice period, a minimum term, an early termination term and a service area.

4 of the 7 ranked managers print a public rating and 2 managers publish a property list, and Blackbird Hospitality is not one of them.

The public ratings the other ranked Poconos managers print beside Blackbird Hospitality are Ideal Property Management (4.5 on Google), Pocono Pads (4.9 across 1,996 combined reviews, per their site), True North Vacation Rentals (1,000+ five star Airbnb reviews claimed on their site) and Three Daughters Properties (4.86 on Airbnb across 662+ reviews, per their site), each as worded on that manager’s own site.

9 other managers were evaluated in the Poconos without a rank, outside the ranked order above.

Claim status

Blackbird Hospitality has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Blackbird Hospitality page for Poconos comes from blackbirdhm.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos, not from Blackbird Hospitality.

Blackbird Hospitality appears in the Poconos with 5 sources across 1 outside domain, each listed under Sources for Blackbird Hospitality with the date we read it.

What should you ask Blackbird Hospitality about the Poconos?

These are the 4 questions to put to Blackbird Hospitality before you sign in the Poconos, with what Blackbird Hospitality has published on each Poconos point at blackbirdhm.com and what the record for Blackbird Hospitality still lacks.

  1. What percentage of gross rental revenue does Blackbird Hospitality take in the Poconos, and which fees sit on top? We found no management fee for Blackbird Hospitality on blackbirdhm.com covering the Poconos, so ask Blackbird Hospitality for the percentage, the Blackbird Hospitality onboarding fee and any Blackbird Hospitality technology or cleaning markup in writing, and keep the reply from Blackbird Hospitality with your the Poconos notes. The typical range we recorded for the Poconos sits in the comparison table above, so hold any Blackbird Hospitality quote against it.
  2. How much notice does Blackbird Hospitality require to end the agreement in the Poconos? Blackbird Hospitality states on its own site (read October 15, 2026) that owners can cancel with 30 days’ notice, after a standard 12 month agreement that renews automatically, so ask Blackbird Hospitality in writing how that window applies to bookings already on the Poconos calendar, and whether Blackbird Hospitality adds an exit fee on top of the Poconos agreement.
  3. Who holds the Poconos listings under Blackbird Hospitality’s agreement, you or Blackbird Hospitality? Blackbird Hospitality has published nothing on blackbirdhm.com for the Poconos about who owns the Blackbird Hospitality Airbnb and Vrbo listings, the Blackbird Hospitality reviews and the Blackbird Hospitality guest history once you leave, so get the Blackbird Hospitality answer in the contract, not on a call.
  4. What is the minimum contract term or minimum revenue with Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos? Blackbird Hospitality states on its own site (read October 15, 2026): standard agreement is 12 months and renews automatically. On leaving a the Poconos home, Blackbird Hospitality states: owners may cancel with 30 days’ notice. Ask Blackbird Hospitality to put the Poconos term and any the Poconos minimum revenue in the contract itself.

How to read the Blackbird Hospitality profile

Every figure on the Blackbird Hospitality page for the Poconos carries the date we checked it for Blackbird Hospitality, and the latest check on file in the Poconos is September 2026. Each Blackbird Hospitality figure for Poconos comes from blackbirdhm.com or an official source about Blackbird Hospitality, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Blackbird Hospitality publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Blackbird Hospitality. Homes on record for Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos are only those Blackbird Hospitality listed itself or self-reported through the Blackbird Hospitality claim flow, and the Blackbird Hospitality government facts for the Poconos come from the .gov page read for Blackbird Hospitality that day. The place of Blackbird Hospitality in the Poconos order follows the published methodology, and Blackbird Hospitality cannot buy a better one.

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