Handing a home to a property manager is a high-stakes decision made with almost no comparable data. Owners weigh a proposal, a referral, and a handshake, then wait a season to find out what actually happens to their revenue and their walls.
Guest reviews tell you how the stay went. They say little about how the owner is treated when the statement arrives. A five star average can sit on top of hidden markups, gated pricing, and contracts that only work in one direction. So this report weighs what a manager is willing to put in writing: the fee published or withheld, markup and contract terms, verified host performance across platforms, and what owners themselves say in their own words.
Every number links to its source and carries the date it was verified. Nothing here is estimated and no placement is paid. Travelers can use it too, but it is built first for the owner deciding.
19 listings, Superhost.
69 listings, Superhost.
76 listings, Superhost.
Ten rental markets, from the Wasatch Back to red-rock country.
Guest reviews (35%), owner reviews (20%), website transparency (20%), host status (15%), and press (10%). Ratings are Bayesian adjusted so a 5.0 from a dozen reviews cannot outweigh a 4.9 from thousands, and review volume earns credit only up to 500 reviews, beyond which quality decides, not scale. Owner reviews are Google reviews whose authors identify themselves as management clients, quoted verbatim with a link to the original. Website transparency is scored on disclosure behavior only, from a verification crawl rerun every 30 days. We record what each company publishes on its own site with the exact quote and source URL, never that the practice is followed in the field. A published fee means a published number. Components we cannot yet verify for a company score at the market average, neither helping nor hurting, so a rank above average must be earned through verified data.
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