STR Select ranks short term rental managers, revenue services and host tools on one printed formula that no company can pay to change. Ideal Property Management, Blackbird Hospitality and Galvanized Management lead the Poconos list, and every ranked page carries its sources and checked date. Checked November 9, 2026.
Ranked lists of STR management companies, revenue services and host tools. Fees compared from published rates, owner reviews verified, every fact sourced and dated.
Last updated: November 9, 2026The number one pick on each of our current lists, plus the fastest way to compare what managers charge. No placement on this site is paid.
Poconos only, staffed in East Stroudsburg, ranked #1 in its market on local depth.
Tool · OwnersPut your revenue against the only published Poconos rates, and any quote you have, for year one and year two.
Service · Revenue managementAnalyst led pricing for a flat published $350 per property per month. Ranked #1 in its category.
Tool · CompliancePermits, licenses, zoning and tax rules watched daily, with a shareable compliance certificate. Ranked #1 in its category.
Free for owners and hosts. Rankings follow the published method, and no company can pay to change its position or score.
Managers by market and town. Services and tools by job.
Our fee index records real published rates. Where a company hides pricing, we say so.
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Every listing leads with the company's own site, or ask us to match you with one well reviewed manager.
Nobody publishes what STR managers charge. So we do. Every market page carries a fee index built from managers' own pricing pages, re-checked quarterly: 2 of 16 managers evaluated publish a rate in the Poconos.
See the Poconos index| Company | Published fee | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Galvanized Management | 25% of net rent | Published |
| Pocono Pads | 12% of gross revenue plus $1,000 one time signing fee | Published |
| Pocono Pads | 25% of gross revenue | Published |
| Home Team Luxury Rentals | 15 to 22% reported by a third party review site. Not confirmed by the company | Third party report |
| Ideal Property Management | Not published. Charged on net rent, after platform and cleaning fees, per owner interviews, September 2026 | Quote only |
The stack behind a well run rental, held to the same standard as the managers.
RevFactor is our top pick for hands on STR revenue management in 2026 on daily human oversight, model, and a published flat rate.
HostReady is our top pick for STR compliance in 2026: the widest host side coverage of permits, licenses, zoning and tax rules, with published pricing from $8.
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Claim your listingSTR Select currently covers 13 markets (The Poconos, The Smoky Mountains, North Myrtle Beach, Tucson, Broken Bow, Joshua Tree, Blue Ridge, Destin, Big Bear Lake, Palm Springs, Sedona, Orlando and Aspen), with 72 ranked and 57 evaluated and not ranked managers across them. Beyond managers, 12 category rankings cover services and tools, with 67 ranked vendors between them. The fee index behind the market pages holds 128 records, each with its source and the date it was read.
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Full service management typically runs 18 to 30% of gross revenue depending on market. Our fee index records each company’s published rate or its refusal to publish one, per market.
No. Rankings follow the published method, and no company can pay to change its position or score. There are no sponsored or featured slots, and claiming a profile, the ranking badge and lead matching never move a company on a list. The methodology and its weights are printed for every list.
Every review requires a confirmed email address and editor approval before it publishes, and nothing publishes until a company has at least two approved reviews. Anonymous reviews do not exist here.
Every ranked company is scored out of 100 on four printed inputs: fee transparency at 30%, verified owner reviews at 25%, local depth at 25% and service scope at 20%. Each ranked page lists its sources and the date we checked them.
The Pocono Mountains, the Smoky Mountains, North Myrtle Beach, Tucson, Broken Bow, Joshua Tree and Blue Ridge are live with market and fee data. The top 20 US STR markets roll out through 2026. Tell us where to go next.
Two of the 16 managers we evaluated there do. Cabins For You publishes a 10% management fee, and Short Term Coops publishes a flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee. The rest quote privately.
Ask for the fee in writing before a walkthrough, plus the contract term and the cancellation notice, what is included, such as cleaning, versus billed separately, whether you keep owner use nights, and who legally holds the listing. National brands’ own sites range from no long term contract to a 12 month term with mutually agreeable termination.
Almost always a local registration, plus tax registration. In the Poconos our dataset found registration or licensing required in 19 of the 23 municipalities (last checked September 26, 2026), and Mount Pocono’s application lists a $500 fee. Rules differ by township, so check the one your property is in.
Pennsylvania applies a 6% hotel occupancy tax to rentals arranged through online or third party brokers, and Monroe County adds 3%. In Tennessee the state sales tax is 7% with a local sales tax of 1.50% to 2.75%, and Sevierville adds a 3% lodging tax. Rates read from state and county pages on October 11, 2026; confirm yours before you file.
Published host side pricing runs from $8.25 per month for one property at HostReady and $14.99 per month for up to 5 properties at STR Comply. Avalara MyLodgeTax prints $39 per month per property plus a $299 setup fee on its cart page. We checked each vendor’s own pricing page for the ranking.
Full service usually covers listing management, pricing, guest messaging, turnover coordination and maintenance dispatch. Co-hosting and online tiers cut the on the ground work and cost less, for example the Pocono Pads online tier at 12% of gross revenue. Cleaning is often billed separately, so get the inclusion list in writing.
Transparency: rankings follow the published method, and no company can pay to change its position or score. Every ranking follows the same printed methodology applied to the same sourced facts.
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