Frontier Property Management

What Will I Actually Pay?

A property management fee calculator: 20% of net rental revenue against any other quote, on your own numbers.

Two quotes, one set of numbers

The percentage is only half a quote. The other half is what it is charged on. Enter a year of your cabin's numbers, or keep the example, and change the other manager's rate and base.

What guests paid for the nights, before cleaning fees and taxes.

What Airbnb or VRBO withholds from you. Under Airbnb's host-only fee it is roughly 15%; under the older split fee it was about 3%. Your payout report shows yours.

The other manager's quote

It is charged on

Not sure? Ask them. Most managers do not say on their website.

Yearly management fee

Frontier: 20% of $42,500 net rental revenue
$8,500
Other manager: 20% of $58,000
$11,600

On these numbers the other manager's fee is $3,100 a year more than Frontier's.

As a share of the $58,000 guests paid in rent and fees: Frontier 14.7%, the other manager 20%.

Management fee only. Cleaning fees go to the cleaners either way, and other costs (setup, technology, or monthly fees, maintenance markups) are not included; ask each manager for those separately. Taxes are collected on top of the stay and remitted, so they are never part of either base here.

A worked example

A cabin books $50,000 in nightly revenue in a year and collects $8,000 in cleaning and pet fees. The platform withholds a 15% host fee. Here is 20% on each common base:

20% charged onBaseYearly fee
Gross booking revenue, cleaning fees included$58,000$11,600
Gross rent, cleaning fees excluded$50,000$10,000
Net rental revenue, after the host fee (Frontier)$42,500$8,500

Same percentage, three prices: $3,100 a year apart from top to bottom. That is why it is worth asking every manager what their percentage is charged on, and why the rates Broken Bow managers publish are only comparable once you know the base.

Management fee questions

Yes, when both managers charge the same rate, because the net base is smaller. On a cabin with $50,000 in nightly revenue, $8,000 in cleaning and pet fees, and a 15% platform host fee, 20% of gross booking revenue is $11,600 a year and 20% of net rental revenue is $8,500, a difference of $3,100.

20% of net rental revenue, meaning the booking revenue that remains after platform host fees (whatever Airbnb or VRBO withholds under the fee model the listing uses) and state and local occupancy taxes have come out. Not 20% of the headline booking total. Cleaning and pet fees pass through to vendors and are never part of the base. Maintenance and vendor invoices are billed to the owner at cost with no markup, and anything over $300 needs owner approval first. No setup fee, no monthly minimum, no annual contract.

It depends on the manager, and most do not say on their website. Some charge on the whole booking total, cleaning fee included. Frontier's base never includes cleaning or pet fees, and at least one other Broken Bow manager publishes the same exclusion. Ask any manager you are comparing.

Setup or onboarding fees, monthly or technology fees, markups on cleaning and maintenance, required photo packages, and contract length. A lower headline rate with a monthly fee and a gross base can cost more than a higher rate on net. Our Broken Bow management fee comparison lists what local managers publish.

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Frontier's fee is 20% of net rental revenue, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. Tell us about the cabin.

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