What's different from v1
Score v2 adds two inputs the live formula doesn't have. Verified property count comes straight from the sourced property ledger. First-party verification asks whether a company has claimed its own profile and sat for an owner interview with us: a claimed profile means the company has checked the facts we print about it, and an interview means we have asked the questions a buyer would ask. Both steps are free and open to every company on the list, so the input rewards standing behind a listing, not paying for one. Score v2 also makes the compliance question explicit instead of folding it into "local depth." It keeps fee transparency as-is. Verified reviews and response time are both printed as live inputs even though the data mostly doesn't exist yet, specifically so the formula stays honest about what it's supposed to measure once that data shows up, rather than quietly dropping an input the moment it's inconvenient.
Known gaps, printed plainly
- Reviews: the site's LinkedIn-verified review pipeline (src/data/reviews.js) is empty sitewide. Score v2 falls back to each company's own public rating where one is sourced; companies with no public rating score 0 here, which is a data gap, not a quality judgment.
- Response time: not tracked anywhere on the site yet. Every company scores 0 on this input today.
- Compliance: scored only where a company's own copy states a license or registration fact we already recorded. We do not infer a company's compliance posture from its market's town-level STR registration rules; a town requiring registration says nothing about whether a specific manager actually registers each listing.
- Verification: scored only where our data file carries a dated claim and, where it applies, a dated interview. A company that has not claimed scores 0 here, which is an open invitation, not a judgment. Claiming takes minutes on the claim page.
- Property count: for companies with a larger live inventory than the rows we individually captured (flagged on their profile), score v2 scores the verified sample we hold today, which can undercount a large operator relative to a fully enumerated small one.
Not applied
No market page, listicle, or company rank on the live site uses this formula. The rank-diff tables below (current v1 rank vs score v2 rank, per market) are published here for the site owner's own review. Applying score v2 live is a separate decision, made by hand, after reviewing these numbers, not something this page or its data file does automatically.
The Poconos
| Company | Current rank | Score v2 | Score v2 rank | Change |
|---|
| Ideal Property Management | #1 | 41.8 | #2 | Down 1 |
| Blackbird Hospitality | #2 | 0 | #5 | Down 3 |
| Galvanized Management | #3 | 30 | #4 | Down 1 |
| Pocono Pads | #4 | 39.2 | #3 | Up 1 |
| Pocono Mountain Rentals | #5 | 0 | #6 | Down 1 |
| True North Vacation Rentals | #6 | 0 | #7 | Down 1 |
| Three Daughters Properties | #7 | 43.8 | #1 | Up 6 |
The Smoky Mountains
| Company | Current rank | Score v2 | Score v2 rank | Change |
|---|
| Short Term Coops | #1 | 39.2 | #2 | Down 1 |
| Elk Springs Resort | #2 | 0 | #3 | Down 1 |
| Cabins For You | #3 | 45 | #1 | Up 2 |
| Compass Vacation Properties | #4 | 0 | #4 | No change |
| Cabins of the Smoky Mountains | #5 | 0 | #5 | No change |
| Fireside Chalets | #6 | 0 | #6 | No change |
| Eden Crest Vacation Rentals | #7 | 0 | #7 | No change |
North Myrtle Beach
| Company | Current rank | Score v2 | Score v2 rank | Change |
|---|
| Grand Strand Vacations | #1 | 0 | #3 | Down 2 |
| Elliott Beach Rentals | #2 | 0 | #4 | Down 2 |
| Thomas Beach Vacations | #3 | 25 | #1 | Up 2 |
| Carolina Resorts Realty | #4 | 17.6 | #2 | Up 2 |
| Condo-World | #5 | 0 | #5 | No change |
| McMillan Real Estate | #6 | 0 | #6 | No change |
| Eagle Beach Rentals | #7 | 0 | #7 | No change |
Tucson
| Company | Current rank | Score v2 | Score v2 rank | Change |
|---|
| BnB My Place | #1 | 38.4 | #1 | No change |
| Short Term Rentals Tucson | #2 | 38.4 | #2 | No change |
| 1st Class Vacation Rental Management | #3 | 20 | #3 | No change |