Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select evaluated Desired Stays among 16 short term rental managers in the Poconos and has not ranked Desired Stays, with facts checked Sept 2026.
Desired Stays · short term rental management · the Pocono Mountains
Co-hosting focused husband and wife operation. Percentage of revenue model, exact rate not published.
Desired Stays is one of the 16 companies we verified operating in the Pocono Mountains, where Desired Stays trades from desiredstays.com. Desired Stays is listed but not in our top 7 for the Poconos, based on the facts Desired Stays publishes today on desiredstays.com. A published fee from Desired Stays and verified owner reviews of Desired Stays are the two inputs most likely to change where Desired Stays sits in the Poconos. How scoring works
| Website | desiredstays.com checked September 2026 |
| Market | the Pocono Mountains |
| Management fee | See note above checked September 2026 |
No verified property list on record for Desired Stays in the Poconos. As of October 31, 2026, Desired Stays posts no portfolio for the Poconos on desiredstays.com that we could find. A ledger for Desired Stays starts from a list Desired Stays publishes itself, so Desired Stays’s ledger stays empty until Desired Stays lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Desired Stays can read Desired Stays’s pages on desiredstays.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Desired Stays sits in the Poconos evaluation as an evaluated manager outside the top 7, and the Desired Stays figures for Poconos below are the ones we hold on record for Desired Stays in the Poconos. Desired Stays is one of 9 companies evaluated in the Poconos without a rank, and Desired Stays sits outside the 7 ranked.
| Position of Desired Stays | Evaluated, not ranked, among 16 in the Poconos |
| Market page checked for Desired Stays | October 21, 2026 |
Desired Stays 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 Desired Stays which of them apply to your address.
For Desired Stays, 10 of 23 Poconos jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 19 require an inspection, which a Desired Stays owner should price into year one.
Desired Stays is one of 16 managers in the Poconos evaluation, and the Desired Stays figures below set Desired Stays against the rest of the Poconos market, with the desiredstays.com record as the reference point for Desired Stays.
Desired Stays lists no homes of its own. Of the 53 homes on record in the Poconos, Desired Stays holds none, because only 2 managers publish a property list, and Desired Stays is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Poconos peers of Desired Stays, 2 print a fee with a number.
| Typical range in the Poconos to hold Desired Stays against | 18 to 30% of revenue for full service, per published rates and our evaluation notes |
| Managers publishing a rate, Desired Stays included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Poconos row of Desired Stays | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Poconos with a published fee, Desired Stays included or not | 2 of 7 |
What we recorded for Desired Stays in the Poconos: co-hosting focused husband and wife operation. Percentage of revenue model, exact rate not published.
For the contract terms of Desired Stays in the Poconos we read desiredstays.com on October 15, 2026, and none of those Desired Stays pages prints a notice period for Desired Stays, a minimum term or an early termination fee for the Poconos.
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 Desired Stays is not 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.
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; Desired Stays is not counted in any of those lines, so those terms stay questions for Desired Stays rather than facts.
4 of the 7 ranked managers print a public rating and 2 managers publish a property list, and Desired Stays is not one of them.
The public ratings the other ranked Poconos managers print beside Desired Stays 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.
8 other managers were evaluated in the Poconos without a rank beside Desired Stays, so Desired Stays shares that unranked group with 8 others.
Desired Stays has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Desired Stays page for Poconos comes from desiredstays.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Desired Stays in the Poconos, not from Desired Stays.
Desired Stays appears in the Poconos with 5 sources across 1 outside domain, each listed under Sources for Desired Stays with the date we read it.
These are the 5 questions to put to Desired Stays before you sign in the Poconos, with what Desired Stays has published on each Poconos point at desiredstays.com and what the record for Desired Stays still lacks.
Every figure on the Desired Stays page for the Poconos carries the date we checked it for Desired Stays, and the latest check on file in the Poconos is Sept 2026. Each Desired Stays figure for Poconos comes from desiredstays.com or an official source about Desired Stays, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Desired Stays publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Desired Stays. Homes on record for Desired Stays in the Poconos are only those Desired Stays listed itself or self-reported through the Desired Stays claim flow, and the Desired Stays government facts for the Poconos come from the .gov page read for Desired Stays that day. The place of Desired Stays in the Poconos order follows the published methodology, and Desired Stays cannot buy a better one.
Verified reviews of Desired Stays in the Poconos are awaiting publication. Reviews of Desired Stays go live once at least 2 pass verification, so a single voice never defines Desired Stays in the Poconos. Worked with Desired Stays in the Poconos? Yours could be one of the first for Desired Stays.
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