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What Is a Vacation Rental Management Fee? What It Really Covers
Learn how a vacation rental management fee is calculated, what it may include, which costs sit outside it, and how to compare proposals fairly.
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Finance & Payments9 min read
How to Automate Owner Disbursements and Vendor Payouts
A controlled owner disbursement automation workflow for vacation rental managers and franchisors, including cleared-funds, ledger, approval, and tax-document gates.
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Finance & Payments9 min read
Vacation Rental Owner Statements: What to Include
A practical guide to vacation rental owner statements that reconcile cash, explain property performance, and work across multi-market and franchise operations.
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Finance & Payments9 min read
Per-Owner Ledgers for Vacation Rental Management
How to design a vacation rental owner ledger that proves cash ownership, supports property-level detail, and scales across management companies and franchise networks.
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Finance & Payments9 min read
Vacation Rental Trust Account Reconciliation: A Field Checklist
A source-backed monthly reconciliation checklist for vacation rental property managers and franchisors, from bank cutoff through beneficiary-ledger signoff.
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Owner Economics9 min read
20% vs. 25% Vacation Rental Management Fee: Which Produces the Better Owner Outcome?
Compare a 20% vs. 25% vacation rental management fee using the same fee base, scope, costs, and transparent owner-net math.
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Operations9 min read
Vacation Rental Cleaning Fees: Pricing, Compliance, and Owner Economics
How to set, disclose, and audit a vacation rental cleaning fee using real turnover cost, total-price rules, guest expectations, and market-level economics.
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Owner Economics9 min read
What Does an All-Inclusive Vacation Rental Management Fee Include?
A line-by-line method for comparing all-inclusive vacation rental management fees by scope, fee base, exclusions, and owner outcome.
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Growth9 min read
How to Increase Direct Bookings for Vacation Rentals
A practical direct-booking system for multi-market property managers and vacation-rental franchisors: discovery, conversion, measurement, and Google Vacation Rentals.
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Distribution & Margin8 min read
Direct Booking vs. OTA for Vacation Rentals: The Real Math
Compare vacation rental direct booking and OTA economics using current platform fees, payment costs, acquisition expenses, operational work, and contribution margin.
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Distribution & Margin8 min read
Airbnb and Vrbo Commission Structures, Decoded for Operators
Compare current Airbnb host fees and Vrbo pay-per-booking charges, including PMS-connected rules, fee bases, payout math, and margin reporting.
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Gross Booking Value to Owner Net: The Vacation Rental Fee Waterfall
Follow a vacation rental owner net calculation from guest charges through taxes, channel fees, management fees, property expenses, reserves, and payout.
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How to Cut Month-End Close from 15 Days to 5
Three-way match across Guesty, native accounting, and native operations: a five-day close as a process recommendation, not an SLA. QuickBooks is imported at onboarding, then replaced.
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Trust Accounting: From Monthly Reconciliation to Daily Enforcement
DRE audits don't wait for your month-end close. Here's how per-owner ledgers, three-way matching across Guesty and native records, and daily exception review turn trust compliance from a monthly scramble into a continuous control.
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Welcome to VR Goals: Business Goals Built for Vacation Rentals
Learn how VR Goals helps vacation rental companies set and achieve meaningful objectives.
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