What Does Short-Term Rental Management Cost in the Hudson Valley?

Ask most Hudson Valley property managers what they charge and you will get a phone call instead of a number. We think that is backwards. If you are deciding whether to hand someone your house, you should be able to see the price before you pick up the phone. So here is the entire fee structure, in full, with nothing behind a form.

The whole fee structure, in three lines

Haus charges three fees, and these are all of them:

• 25% of gross rental revenue, net of guest-paid taxes and platform fees. That is a management commission on the rent your house actually collects, not on the full booking total a guest pays.
• $250 to $400 per month, a property management fee that scales with the size of the house.
• $1,500 one time, an onboarding fee that covers getting your home listed, photographed, stocked, and live.

There is no annual contract and no minimum stay requirement buried underneath. The full breakdown, with a worked example, lives on the fees page.

What the 25% actually covers

The commission is not just for taking bookings. It covers the whole operation: daily pricing off real market data, guest communication answered in minutes, listing creation and ongoing optimization, housekeeping coordination and quality control between every stay, maintenance and vendor coordination, monthly owner statements, and the strategy work that keeps your home earning through a seasonal market. One founder is accountable for all of it, which is the point.

What costs extra, honestly

A few things sit outside the fees above, because they are real costs we pass through at cost rather than mark up:

• Consumables and supplies, the toiletries, paper goods, and linens that wear out over a season.
• Actual vendor invoices for repairs and maintenance. We coordinate the work; you pay the vendor's real bill, with no markup.
• Optional projects like design, staging, or furnishing, only if you want them.

Cleaning is paid by guests at check-out, at cost. We do not inflate cleaning fees, because a padded cleaning fee is the fastest way to lose a booking.

How the rest of the industry prices, and why it is confusing

Compare a few managers and the numbers stop lining up quickly. National platforms advertise rates "starting at 10%" that land at 18% to 25% for full service once you read the pricing page, and owners report all-in costs reaching 35% to 45% after add-ons. Some local managers quote a percentage "of net," which sounds lower but is measured after cleaning, platform fees, and taxes come out, so the effective take is higher than it looks. Others hide the number entirely, or lead with a "first month free" that makes the ongoing rate harder to compare. Setup fees range from nothing to nearly $3,000.

None of that is necessarily dishonest. It is just hard to compare, which is exactly why we publish one clear number measured one clear way. If you want the side-by-side, our comparison of national managers, local managers, and self-managing lays it out.

A real example

Say a home grosses $60,000 in rent over a year. The 25% commission is $15,000. A $300 monthly management fee is $3,600. That leaves roughly $41,400 before the owner's own costs like utilities and consumables, or about 69% of gross reaching you. Your monthly owner statement shows exactly this, every line itemized, funds held in a dedicated trust account, and delivered on time each month:

Why we publish this

Because the surprise is always in the fees, and we would rather have that conversation up front than lose your trust later. A transparent number is not a discount, and it is not the whole decision, but it is the honest starting point. What actually moves your bottom line is the gap between a home priced daily by someone who knows it and a home left at a flat rate, and that gap is usually far larger than any difference in commission.

If you own a Hudson Valley home and want to know what it could earn under management, tell us about it and Justin will reply personally within 24 hours. If it is a fit, he prepares a free revenue projection from real market data for your town.