Pricing
What short-term rental management costs in Nashville
18% of nightly revenue. That is the whole management fee — it drops as you add properties, and Boost charges nothing else of its own. Your supplies and maintenance are billed separately at what the vendor actually charged, on the same monthly invoice. Below is the full arithmetic, what the fee covers, what is not charged, and the questions to ask any manager you are comparing us against.
- 18% of nightly revenue, nothing else
- Month-to-month, 30-day notice
- Repriced every week
The rate, by portfolio size
18%
1–2 properties
17%
3–4 properties
16%
5–6 properties
How it is calculated
The percentage is taken on nightly revenue, not on gross.
Two managers can quote the same number and charge very different money, because the base is different. Here is ours, written out.
Start with the payout
What the platform actually sends for the stay — the guest’s total, less what the platform keeps.
Take out the pass-throughs
The cleaning fee goes to the cleaner. The platform’s service fee is the platform’s. Neither is money the home earned, so neither is in the base.
What is left is nightly revenue
The management fee is 18% of that. Boost invoices no other fee of its own — but supplies and maintenance are a real cost of running the home, and they are billed to you on top of the fee at the vendor’s actual price.
- Cleaning fees are excluded
- A home with an expensive turn does not generate a bigger management fee. The cleaner is paid from the guest’s cleaning fee, at their rate.
- Supplies and maintenance are billed on top
- Repairs, supplies and linen are charged to you in addition to the management fee, at the vendor’s actual invoice. No percentage is added to any of it, and the receipts are attached to your statement so you can check them.
- You are billed monthly, from earnings
- One invoice a month, taken from the month’s revenue: the management fee as a single line, then any supplies and maintenance at cost, itemised. How to read that statement.
What the fee covers
Six jobs, one percentage.
There is no tier where you get fewer of these. The rate changes with how many homes you have, not with how much work we do on them.
Weekly repricing
Your rates are reviewed every week against what is actually selling on your street — events, weather, the shoulder weeks nobody looks at. This is the part most owners are paying a manager to do and the part most managers do quarterly.
Listing, photography and copy
Building the listing, the photos, the title and description, and the ongoing edits when Airbnb changes how listings surface. There is no separate onboarding charge.
Guest communication, 24/7
Inquiries, booking questions, check-in problems and the 2am lockout. Automated messaging plus real people, with Chris behind them.
Housekeeping coordination
Scheduling every turn, handling same-day back-to-backs, restocking consumables and quality-checking the result. The cleaner is paid from the guest cleaning fee, at their actual rate.
Maintenance and inspections
Dispatching a vendor when something breaks, usually within hours, plus a quarterly walk-through of the home. Vendor invoices pass through at cost.
Permitting and reporting
The Metro short-term rental permit application, the documents, neighbor notification, the inspection and the annual renewal — included with management, with Metro’s own fees paid by the owner. Plus a monthly owner statement you can actually read.
What is not charged
The list of things that are not on your statement.
Most of what makes a management quote expensive is not the headline percentage. It is everything underneath it.
- No onboarding or setup fee
- No listing or copywriting fee
- No linen or supply fee
- No markup on maintenance or supplies — you pay the vendor’s actual cost
- No permitting fee when we manage the home (Metro’s own fees are paid by the owner)
- No term, no exit fee — month-to-month with 30 days’ notice
Terms
Month-to-month, because we believe in earning your business every day.
- 30 days’ notice
- In writing, at any point. There is no minimum term, no auto-renewing year and no exit fee.
- The listing stays yours
- Your Airbnb and Vrbo listings live on your own account, in your name, for the whole time we manage them. The review history you build stays attached to you rather than to us, so it keeps counting for your home if you ever leave.
- You can see everything
- We run on total transparency: the calendar, the rates we set, guest messages, the reviews and every vendor invoice are open to you at any time. Nothing about your listing is hidden behind us, and you keep the platform logins to check it yourself.
- The permit stays yours
- You are the named responsible party on the Metro permit. We do the filing and track the renewal date. Permitting.
Comparing quotes
Five questions to ask any manager, including us.
We do not publish other companies’ rates. Fee structures change, a stale number helps nobody, and the headline percentage is rarely where the difference lives. These are the questions that surface it.
- What is the percentage taken on?
- A percentage means nothing until you know the base. Ask whether it is charged on gross booking value, on your payout, or on nightly revenue after the cleaning fee and the platform fee come out. The same headline number can differ by hundreds of dollars a month depending on the answer.
- What is billed on top of it?
- Onboarding, photography, linen programs, technology fees, listing fees, minimum monthly charges, guest-damage administration. Ask for the list, in writing, and ask what a normal month costs all-in rather than what the headline rate is.
- Is there a markup on maintenance and supplies?
- A common structure is a modest management rate plus a percentage added to every vendor invoice. Ask to see an owner statement from a month when something broke.
- How long is the term, and how do you leave?
- Ask for the notice period, the exit process, and whether the agreement auto-renews. Ask what happens to bookings that are already on the calendar when you give notice.
- Who holds the listing, the reviews and the permit?
- If the listing lives on the manager’s account, the review history you built goes with them. Same for the Metro permit and who is named on it as the responsible party. This is the question owners most often find out the answer to too late.
Our answers, in order: nightly revenue after the cleaning fee and platform fee · nothing · none · month-to-month with 30 days’ notice · you do. Send us a competing quote and we will read it with you, line by line, whichever way you end up going.
Questions
What owners ask about the fee.
It is what the booking earns for the home once the pass-throughs come out: your Airbnb payout, less the cleaning fee that goes to the cleaner, less the platform’s own service fee. The management fee is a percentage of that number — not of the gross amount the guest was charged.
A worked illustration, with round numbers rather than market data: a guest books three nights at $300 and pays a $150 cleaning fee. The $150 goes to the cleaner. If the platform takes its service fee from the remaining $900, the nightly revenue is what is left of that $900 — and 18% of it is the management fee. The cleaning fee is not part of the base, so a home with an expensive turn does not pay us more for it.
The rate is set by how many homes you have with us, and it applies across all of them:
1–2 properties: 18% · 3–4 properties: 17% · 5–6 properties: 16%
At seven or more homes the structure changes to a one-time $1,000 per home instead of a monthly percentage. The same tiers are available as a referral incentive — if you bring another owner, you both move down the table. Ask Chris which of the two is better for your situation; sometimes it is not the one you would expect.
No. If the home earns nothing in a month, the fee for that month is nothing. We are paid out of what your home actually books, which is the point of a percentage — our month is good when yours is.
The cleaner keeps it. The guest pays a cleaning fee, it passes to the cleaning team at their rate, and it is excluded from the base the management fee is calculated on. We wrote up exactly what a Nashville turn involves if you want the detail.
Our permitting service is included with management — the application, the documents, neighbor notification, the inspection and the annual renewal. Metro’s own fees are paid by the owner, because they are the city’s charge and not ours. How permitting works.
Month-to-month, cancel with 30 days’ notice in writing, at any point. There is no term and no exit fee. Bookings already on the calendar are honoured and handed over cleanly — the same 48-hour process we run when an owner switches to us, in reverse.
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- 74 homes · 47 owners
- 18% of nightly revenue, nothing else
- Month-to-month, 30-day notice
- Repriced every week
- Permitting included
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