Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select evaluated Kindful among 16 short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains and has not ranked Kindful, with facts checked October 21, 2026.
Kindful · short term rental management · the Great Smoky Mountains
Full service short-term rental manager that says it has managed vacation rentals in the Smoky Mountains since 2023, with dedicated pages for Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley, and holds Tennessee Real Estate Commission license #998 as a Licensed Vacation Lodging Service Firm. Charges a fixed dollar amount per booked night instead of a percentage, set per home and reviewed annually, with no annual contract and bookings kept in the owner's own account. Fee not published: the site prints a $20 per booked night example but no actual rate. Listed at the company's request, October 2026.
Kindful is one of the 16 companies we verified operating in the Great Smoky Mountains, where Kindful trades from kindful.co. Kindful is listed but not in our top 7 for the Smoky Mountains, based on the facts Kindful publishes today on kindful.co. A published fee from Kindful and verified owner reviews of Kindful are the two inputs most likely to change where Kindful sits in the Smoky Mountains. How scoring works
| Website | kindful.co checked September 2026 |
| Market | the Great Smoky Mountains |
| Management fee | See note above checked September 2026 |
| Licensee | Kindful LLC |
| License type | Vacation Lodging Service Firm |
| Number | 998 |
| Status | Active |
| Expires | September 1, 2028 |
| Register | State license lookup checked October 14, 2026 |
No verified property list on record for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains. As of October 25, 2026, Kindful posts no portfolio for the Smoky Mountains on kindful.co that we could find. A ledger for Kindful starts from a list Kindful publishes itself, so Kindful’s ledger stays empty until Kindful lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Kindful can read Kindful’s pages on kindful.co for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Kindful sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as an evaluated manager outside the top 7, and the Kindful figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains. Kindful is one of 9 companies evaluated in the Smoky Mountains without a rank, and Kindful sits outside the 7 ranked.
| Position of Kindful | Evaluated, not ranked, among 16 in the Smoky Mountains |
| Market page checked for Kindful | October 21, 2026 |
Kindful names 3 towns we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. Each paragraph below for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for Kindful owners, checked on the date shown.
Kindful operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Kindful in Gatlinburg: yes; Kindful permit: Tourist Residency Permit; Kindful permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; Kindful inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and Kindful owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
Kindful operates in Sevierville (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Kindful in Sevierville: yes; Kindful permit: Short Term Rental Operational Permit; Kindful renewal: annual; Kindful inspection: yes, a life safety inspection by the Sevierville Fire Department, checked October 8, 2026, and Kindful owners in Sevierville work under that rule set.
For a Kindful owner outside Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; Kindful owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For Kindful, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a Kindful owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a Kindful stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a Kindful stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Sevierville local tax on a Kindful stay | 3% |
| Pigeon Forge local tax on a Kindful stay | 2.50% |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a Kindful stay | 3% |
Kindful is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the Kindful figures below set Kindful against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the kindful.co record as the reference point for Kindful.
Kindful lists no homes of its own. Of the 10 homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, Kindful holds none, because only 1 manager publishes a property list, and Kindful is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of Kindful, 2 print a fee with a number.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold Kindful against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, Kindful included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of Kindful | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, Kindful included or not | 2 of 7 |
What we recorded for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains: full service short-term rental manager that says it has managed vacation rentals in the Smoky Mountains since 2023, with dedicated pages for Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley, and holds Tennessee Real Estate Commission license #998 as a Licensed Vacation Lodging Service Firm. Charges a fixed dollar amount per booked night instead of a percentage, set per home and reviewed annually, with no annual contract and bookings kept in the owner's own account. Fee not published: the site prints a $20 per booked night example but no actual rate. Listed at the company's request, October 2026.
For the contract terms of Kindful in the Smoky Mountains we read kindful.co and kindful.co/terms-of-service on October 15, 2026, and the term printed at kindful.co is the one quoted on this page.
Kindful has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Kindful page for Smoky Mountains comes from kindful.co and the public sources listed under Sources for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains, not from Kindful.
Kindful appears in the Smoky Mountains with 14 sources across 7 outside domains, each listed under Sources for Kindful with the date we read it.
These are the 5 questions to put to Kindful before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what Kindful has published on each Smoky Mountains point at kindful.co and what the record for Kindful still lacks.
Every figure on the Kindful page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for Kindful, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is October 21, 2026. Each Kindful figure for Smoky Mountains comes from kindful.co or an official source about Kindful, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Kindful publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Kindful. Homes on record for Kindful in the Smoky Mountains are only those Kindful listed itself or self-reported through the Kindful claim flow, and the Kindful government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for Kindful that day. The place of Kindful in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and Kindful cannot buy a better one.
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