Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select evaluated Vacasa among 16 short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains and has not ranked Vacasa, with facts checked Sept 26 2026.
Vacasa · short term rental management · the Great Smoky Mountains
National operator with a dedicated Gatlinburg vacation rentals page. Fee not published; Vacasa sets fees per property.
Vacasa is one of the 16 companies we verified operating in the Great Smoky Mountains, where Vacasa trades from vacasa.com. Vacasa is listed but not in our top 7 for the Smoky Mountains, based on the facts Vacasa publishes today on vacasa.com. A published fee from Vacasa and verified owner reviews of Vacasa are the two inputs most likely to change where Vacasa sits in the Smoky Mountains. How scoring works
| Website | vacasa.com checked September 2026 |
| Market | the Great Smoky Mountains |
| Management fee | Not published checked September 2026 |
| Licensee | VACASA |
| License type | Real Estate Firm |
| Number | 265585 |
| Status | Active |
| Expires | April 13, 2028 |
| Register | State license lookup checked October 14, 2026 |
No verified property list on record for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains. As of November 9, 2026, Vacasa posts no portfolio for the Smoky Mountains on vacasa.com that we could find. A ledger for Vacasa starts from a list Vacasa publishes itself, so Vacasa’s ledger stays empty until Vacasa lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Vacasa can read Vacasa’s pages on vacasa.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Vacasa sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as an evaluated manager outside the top 7, and the Vacasa figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains. Vacasa is one of 9 companies evaluated in the Smoky Mountains without a rank, and Vacasa sits outside the 7 ranked.
| Position of Vacasa | Evaluated, not ranked, among 16 in the Smoky Mountains |
| Market page checked for Vacasa | October 21, 2026 |
Vacasa names 1 town we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg. Each paragraph below for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for Vacasa owners, checked on the date shown.
Vacasa operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Vacasa in Gatlinburg: yes; Vacasa permit: Tourist Residency Permit; Vacasa permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; Vacasa inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and Vacasa owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
For a Vacasa owner outside Gatlinburg, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; Vacasa owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For Vacasa, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a Vacasa owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a Vacasa stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a Vacasa stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a Vacasa stay | 3% |
Vacasa is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the Vacasa figures below set Vacasa against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the vacasa.com record as the reference point for Vacasa.
Vacasa lists no homes of its own. Of the 10 homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, Vacasa holds none, because only 1 manager publishes a property list, and Vacasa is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of Vacasa, 2 print a fee with a number.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold Vacasa against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, Vacasa included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of Vacasa | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, Vacasa included or not | 2 of 7 |
What we recorded for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains: national operator with a dedicated Gatlinburg vacation rentals page. Fee not published; Vacasa sets fees per property.
For the contract terms of Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains we read vacasa.com and vacasa.com/property-management/faq on October 15, 2026, and the term printed at vacasa.com/property-management/faq is the one quoted on this page.
The ranked order in the Smoky Mountains reads 1. Short Term Coops, 2. Elk Springs Resort, 3. Cabins For You, 4. Compass Vacation Properties, 5. Cabins of the Smoky Mountains, 6. Fireside Chalets and 7. Eden Crest Vacation Rentals, and Vacasa is not in it.
Among the 7 ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains, 4 managers state full service, 1 manager states full service, all-inclusive management fee, 1 manager states full service, family owned and 1 manager states full service, in-house.
Of the 16 managers on record in the Smoky Mountains, 3 managers print a notice period, 1 manager prints a minimum term, 3 managers print an early termination term, 7 managers print a service area and 2 managers print a founding year on their own sites; Vacasa is one of the managers that print a notice period and an early termination term.
3 of the 7 ranked managers print a public rating and 1 manager publishes a property list, and Vacasa is not one of them.
The public ratings the other ranked Smoky Mountains managers print beside Vacasa are Short Term Coops (4.9 blended rating, per their site (review count no longer published as of October 2026)), Elk Springs Resort (Over 1,000 5 star Google reviews, per their site) and Compass Vacation Properties (2026 Ranked #1 Property Manager in Pigeon Forge & Sevierville, #3 in Gatlinburg by Manager-Review (a third party ranking claim printed on their own site, not a star rating)), each as worded on that manager’s own site.
8 other managers were evaluated in the Smoky Mountains without a rank beside Vacasa, so Vacasa shares that unranked group with 8 others.
Vacasa has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Vacasa page for Smoky Mountains comes from vacasa.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains, not from Vacasa.
Vacasa appears in the Smoky Mountains with 11 sources across 5 outside domains, each listed under Sources for Vacasa with the date we read it.
These are the 5 questions to put to Vacasa before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what Vacasa has published on each Smoky Mountains point at vacasa.com and what the record for Vacasa still lacks.
Every figure on the Vacasa page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for Vacasa, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is Sept 26 2026. Each Vacasa figure for Smoky Mountains comes from vacasa.com or an official source about Vacasa, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Vacasa publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Vacasa. Homes on record for Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains are only those Vacasa listed itself or self-reported through the Vacasa claim flow, and the Vacasa government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for Vacasa that day. The place of Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and Vacasa cannot buy a better one.
Verified reviews of Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains are awaiting publication. Each review of Vacasa goes live as soon as it passes email confirmation and editor approval. Worked with Vacasa in the Smoky Mountains? Yours could be one of the first for Vacasa.
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