Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select ranks Cabins For You #3 of 7 ranked short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains (16 evaluated), with facts checked September 2026.
Full service short term rental management · Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Best for: Owners who want the simplest published percentage in this market.
Cabins For You publishes a straightforward 10% management fee directly on its property management page, alongside a side by side owner statement comparing it against a hypothetical 20% competitor with itemized pass-through charges. It is Gatlinburg based and covers Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. No aggregate review score is printed on the site, so we could not verify one.
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville source |
| Base | Gatlinburg, Tennessee |
| Management fee | 10% management fee, published checked September 2026 |
| Licensee | CABINS FOR YOU |
| License type | Vacation Lodging Service Firm |
| Number | 484 |
| Status | Active |
| Expires | March 31, 2028 |
| Register | State license lookup checked October 14, 2026 |
A property counts here only when we sourced it ourselves from Cabins For You's own published list, or the company self-reported it through the claim flow, labeled as such below. Cabins For You runs a live cabin-by-cabin listing directory at cabinsforyou.com/property-list with over 100 named cabins. The rows below are a verified sample pulled from that directory on 2026-10-07; the full live count is larger than the rows shown here.
| Property | Area | Status | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Bears Retreat | Sevierville | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| A Bear's View | Gatlinburg | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| A Country Retreat | Gatlinburg | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Above It All | Sevierville | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Angel's Choice | Sevierville | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Bear Clubhouse | Pigeon Forge | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Creek View | Gatlinburg | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Hidden Hollow Lodge | Sevierville | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Matterhorn | Sevierville | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
| Karen's Cozy Cottage | Gatlinburg | Own website | source | 2026-10-07 |
Cabins For You sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as rank 3 of 7, and the Cabins For You figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains. 2 ranked managers sit above Cabins For You and 4 sit below Cabins For You; 9 more companies were evaluated beside Cabins For You without a rank.
| Position of Cabins For You | Rank 3 of 7 ranked, 16 evaluated in the Smoky Mountains |
| Model | Full service |
| Published fee | 10% management fee, published, checked September 2026 |
| Base | Gatlinburg, Tennessee |
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville |
| Homes on record | 10 on Cabins For You’s own published list or self-reported through the claim flow |
| Fee checked | September 2026 |
| Ledger checked | October 7, 2026 |
| Market page checked for Cabins For You | October 21, 2026 |
Cabins For You names 3 towns we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. Each paragraph below for Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for Cabins For You owners, checked on the date shown.
Cabins For You operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Cabins For You in Gatlinburg: yes; Cabins For You permit: Tourist Residency Permit; Cabins For You permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; Cabins For You inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and Cabins For You owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
Cabins For You operates in Sevierville (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Cabins For You in Sevierville: yes; Cabins For You permit: Short Term Rental Operational Permit; Cabins For You renewal: annual; Cabins For You inspection: yes, a life safety inspection by the Sevierville Fire Department, checked October 8, 2026, and Cabins For You owners in Sevierville work under that rule set.
For a Cabins For You owner outside Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; Cabins For You owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For Cabins For You, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a Cabins For You owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a Cabins For You stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a Cabins For You stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Sevierville local tax on a Cabins For You stay | 3% |
| Pigeon Forge local tax on a Cabins For You stay | 2.50% |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a Cabins For You stay | 3% |
Cabins For You has 10 homes on record across 3 towns, with the most in Sevierville (5). Each count comes from rows in the table above that carry their own source link.
| Town | Homes on record |
|---|---|
| Sevierville | 5 homes |
| Gatlinburg | 4 homes |
| Pigeon Forge | 1 home |
Cabins For You is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the Cabins For You figures below set Cabins For You against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the cabinsforyou.com record as the reference point for Cabins For You.
Cabins For You publishes 10% management fee, checked Sept 26 2026.
Other published rates in the Smoky Mountains that we recorded: Short Term Coops at Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee.
Cabins For You’s 10 homes on record are 100% of the 10 homes on record across 1 manager in the Smoky Mountains that publish a property list.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of Cabins For You, 2 print a fee with a number, and Cabins For You is one of them.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold Cabins For You against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, Cabins For You included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of Cabins For You | September 2026 |
| Homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, Cabins For You or others | 10 across 1 managers |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, Cabins For You included or not | 2 of 7 |
Inside the Smoky Mountains ranking, Cabins For You sits at rank 3 next to Elk Springs Resort at rank 2 and Compass Vacation Properties at rank 4, and in the Smoky Mountains the order between Cabins For You, Elk Springs Resort and Compass Vacation Properties follows the printed methodology.
Cabins For You is based at Gatlinburg, Tennessee and runs a full service management model, as stated on cabinsforyou.com.
For the Smoky Mountains, Cabins For You states its service area as gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville.
Cabins For You lists its management fee in the Smoky Mountains as 10% management fee, published. We read that on September 2026.
For the contract terms of Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains we read cabinsforyou.com and cabinsforyou.com/property-management on October 15, 2026, and none of those Cabins For You pages prints a notice period for Cabins For You, a minimum term or an early termination fee for the Smoky Mountains.
Cabins For You has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Cabins For You page for Smoky Mountains comes from cabinsforyou.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains, not from Cabins For You.
Cabins For You appears in the Smoky Mountains with 25 sources across 7 outside domains, each listed under Sources for Cabins For You with the date we read it.
These are the 4 questions to put to Cabins For You before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what Cabins For You has published on each Smoky Mountains point at cabinsforyou.com and what the record for Cabins For You still lacks.
Every figure on the Cabins For You page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for Cabins For You, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is September 2026. Each Cabins For You figure for Smoky Mountains comes from cabinsforyou.com or an official source about Cabins For You, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Cabins For You publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Cabins For You. Homes on record for Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains are only those Cabins For You listed itself or self-reported through the Cabins For You claim flow, and the Cabins For You government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for Cabins For You that day. The place of Cabins For You in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and Cabins For You cannot buy a better one.
Answered from Cabins For You’s own pages and government sources, read October 15, 2026.
None that we found. The homepage and the property management page, read October 15, 2026, state no contract term or cancellation notice, so ask for both in writing before you compare it with another manager. Only Short Term Coops, of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains managers, prints a notice period.
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