Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select ranks Short Term Coops #1 of 7 ranked short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains (16 evaluated), with facts checked September 2026.
Full service, in-house short term rental management · Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee
Best for: Owners who want the exact fee base defined in writing before they sign.
Short Term Coops is the only company we evaluated in this market that publishes both a specific rate and what it is calculated on: a flat 20% of net rental revenue, with named exclusions for guest taxes, guest paid cleaning fees and platform charges, plus a disclosed $75 monthly technology fee. It also prints a sourced review score, 4.9 stars, though its site no longer states a review count. The portfolio is intentionally small, about 30 cabins per its own homepage, so expect a boutique relationship rather than a large national book.
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley source |
| Base | Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee |
| Management fee | Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, published checked September 2026 |
| Rating | 4.9 blended rating, per their site (review count no longer published as of October 2026) https://shorttermcoops.com/property-management-fee-gross-vs-net/, checked October 2026 |
| Portfolio | 30 cabins, per their homepage, October 2026 |
| Licensee | Short Term Coops LLC |
| License type | Vacation Lodging Service Firm |
| Number | 975 |
| Status | Active |
| Expires | May 6, 2028 |
| Register | State license lookup checked October 14, 2026 |
No verified property list on record for Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains. As of November 9, 2026, Short Term Coops posts no portfolio for the Smoky Mountains on shorttermcoops.com that we could find. A ledger for Short Term Coops starts from a list Short Term Coops publishes itself, so Short Term Coops’s ledger stays empty until Short Term Coops lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Short Term Coops can read Short Term Coops’s pages on shorttermcoops.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Short Term Coops sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as rank 1 of 7, and the Short Term Coops figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains. 0 ranked managers sit above Short Term Coops and 6 sit below Short Term Coops; 9 more companies were evaluated beside Short Term Coops without a rank.
| Position of Short Term Coops | Rank 1 of 7 ranked, 16 evaluated in the Smoky Mountains |
| Model | Full service, in-house |
| Published fee | Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, published, checked September 2026 |
| Base | Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee |
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley |
| Portfolio | 30 cabins, per their homepage, October 2026 |
| Fee checked | September 2026 |
| Rating checked | 4.9 blended rating, per their site (review count no longer published as of October 2026), October 2026 |
| Market page checked for Short Term Coops | October 21, 2026 |
Short Term Coops names 3 towns we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. Each paragraph below for Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for Short Term Coops owners, checked on the date shown.
Short Term Coops operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Short Term Coops in Gatlinburg: yes; Short Term Coops permit: Tourist Residency Permit; Short Term Coops permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; Short Term Coops inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and Short Term Coops owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
Short Term Coops operates in Sevierville (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Short Term Coops in Sevierville: yes; Short Term Coops permit: Short Term Rental Operational Permit; Short Term Coops renewal: annual; Short Term Coops inspection: yes, a life safety inspection by the Sevierville Fire Department, checked October 8, 2026, and Short Term Coops owners in Sevierville work under that rule set.
For a Short Term Coops owner outside Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; Short Term Coops owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For Short Term Coops, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a Short Term Coops owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a Short Term Coops stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a Short Term Coops stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Sevierville local tax on a Short Term Coops stay | 3% |
| Pigeon Forge local tax on a Short Term Coops stay | 2.50% |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a Short Term Coops stay | 3% |
Short Term Coops is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the Short Term Coops figures below set Short Term Coops against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the shorttermcoops.com record as the reference point for Short Term Coops.
Short Term Coops publishes Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, checked Sept 26 2026.
Other published rates in the Smoky Mountains that we recorded: Cabins For You at 10% management fee.
Short Term Coops lists no homes of its own. Of the 10 homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, Short Term Coops holds none, because only 1 manager publishes a property list, and Short Term Coops is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of Short Term Coops, 2 print a fee with a number, and Short Term Coops is one of them.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold Short Term Coops against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, Short Term Coops included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of Short Term Coops | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, Short Term Coops included or not | 2 of 7 |
Inside the Smoky Mountains ranking, Short Term Coops sits at rank 1 next to Elk Springs Resort at rank 2, and in the Smoky Mountains the order between Short Term Coops and Elk Springs Resort follows the printed methodology.
Short Term Coops is based at Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee and runs a full service, in-house management model, as stated on shorttermcoops.com.
For the Smoky Mountains, Short Term Coops states its service area as gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Wears Valley.
Short Term Coops lists its management fee in the Smoky Mountains as Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, published. We read that on September 2026.
Short Term Coops carries a public rating of 4.9 blended rating, per their site (review count no longer published as of October 2026) on https://shorttermcoops.com/property-management-fee-gross-vs-net/, read October 2026.
For the contract terms of Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains we read shorttermcoops.com and shorttermcoops.com/terms-conditions on October 15, 2026, and the term printed at shorttermcoops.com/terms-conditions is the one quoted on this page.
Short Term Coops describes its portfolio as 30 cabins, per their homepage, October 2026.
Short Term Coops has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Short Term Coops page for Smoky Mountains comes from shorttermcoops.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains, not from Short Term Coops.
Short Term Coops appears in the Smoky Mountains with 16 sources across 7 outside domains, each listed under Sources for Short Term Coops with the date we read it.
These are the 4 questions to put to Short Term Coops before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what Short Term Coops has published on each Smoky Mountains point at shorttermcoops.com and what the record for Short Term Coops still lacks.
Every figure on the Short Term Coops page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for Short Term Coops, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is September 2026. Each Short Term Coops figure for Smoky Mountains comes from shorttermcoops.com or an official source about Short Term Coops, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Short Term Coops publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Short Term Coops. Homes on record for Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains are only those Short Term Coops listed itself or self-reported through the Short Term Coops claim flow, and the Short Term Coops government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for Short Term Coops that day. The place of Short Term Coops in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and Short Term Coops cannot buy a better one.
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