Airbnb co-hosting and full-service management.
What We Offer
StayLocal is a family-run co-hosting company for short-term rental owners.
We launched in 2014 and have been hosting continuously ever since, through platform changes, market swings, and a pandemic that closed most of our competitors. Along the way we've earned 9,200+ five-star reviews.
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24/7 guest communication
Listing optimization and dynamic pricing
Payouts go directly from the platforms to you, never through us
Your listing stays in your name, so you see every booking and every message
We source and coordinate your cleaners and vendors, you pay them directly
Owner portal with live calendar and revenue
Same flat fee whether you book 4 nights or 40
You get paid directly. Airbnb and VRBO pay you, not us. No trust account, no monthly distribution, no waiting.
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Every guest message answered, 24/7, by a real person
Inquiries and booking requests screened before they hit your calendar
Guest reviews written and your reviews responded to
Your listing stays in your name, so you see every booking and every message
You keep your cleaners, your vendors, and your schedule
Requires Hospitable as your PM system
Same flat fee whether you book 4 nights or 40
Co-Hosting Service Highlights:
Live owner portal with revenue & KPI tracking
Dedicated owner support
Dynamic pricing driven by real-time market data
Multi-channel listing and calendar sync
Vendor Management
Guest screening before booking
Property knowledge base
24/7 Guest Support
Guest messages answered in 5 minutes on average
Partners & Certifications
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Full-Service Management, 18% of revenue. We run everything. Our in-house team handles cleaning, maintenance, and property care. We hold the funds and pay you monthly.
Co-Hosting, flat monthly fee. Same guest experience, lighter footprint. Your listing stays in your name, platforms pay you directly, and you pay your vendors directly. We source them, schedule them, and make sure the work gets done.
Guest Communications, $99 a month. We answer your guests. You keep everything else. Requires Hospitable.
Most owners choose based on how involved they want to be, not on price. Happy to talk through which fits.
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Under Co-Hosting and Guest Communications, the platforms pay you directly. Nothing routes through us. No trust account, no waiting on a monthly distribution.
Under Full-Service Management, we collect and pay you monthly, with statements in the owner portal.
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Our team covers guests around the clock. Most messages get a reply in 5 minutes, an hour at the outside. Issues that need a vendor or a physical fix are typically resolved same day between 9am and 7pm.
Every property has its own knowledge base, so the person answering knows your lockbox code, your parking situation, and where the spare supplies are.
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Under Full-Service Management, our in-house team handles it. We prioritize by guest impact, safety, and property condition, log every task in our system, and you see all of it in the owner portal. Two full seasonal inspections a year.
Under Co-Hosting, we source and schedule the vendors and confirm the work is done. You pay them directly and keep the relationship.
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Yes. We charge a flat hourly rate for anything outside the standard scope, including furnishing and unit setup. We aren't interior designers, but we've set up over 900 short-term rentals and we know what guests actually notice.
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Every market is different, and honest answers require looking at your specific property. Our revenue calculator gives you a rough starting point. After a discovery call we send a market report built for your address and comparable listings.
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We prefer Yale, which lets codes rotate automatically for each guest. Schlage Camelot is a solid second choice with a manual override for a dying battery.
We don't work with August locks. They've caused us too many lockouts.
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"Passive income" is the biggest piece of misinformation in this space. Renting a property is not passive. That's the part we take off your hands, but the underlying work is real.
Cash flow also can't be forced. The local market sets the ceiling. We position your property to earn as much as that market allows, but your debt service, utilities, and insurance are what actually determine whether it cash flows.
Owners who go in with clear numbers do well. Owners who go in expecting a hands-off windfall usually don't.
From start to finish, the time frame to “go live” is within 2 weeks although typically we launch within 8 days.
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Virtual Onboarding 1-2 Days
Property knowledge base creation
Financial profile (Tax and payout info)
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Professional Photography 1-5 Days
Our partner photographer will take full property photos as well as some “stylized” photos
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Property Walkthrough 1-4 Days
Maintenance and condition walkthrough
“Punch-list” creation (if applicable)
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Listing Creation 1-2 Days
A listing is created for each channel and connected to our PM system
The property knowledge base is synced to the PM system for our Guest Service team
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Deep Clean 1-2 Days
Our cleaners will deep clean the property in prep for photos and our first guest.
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Rate Strategy 1-2 Days
Prices and booking strategy is set using our knowledge of the local market along with data points from our dynamic pricing software.
This strategy is then synced across all channels.