Great Stays review
Our independent editorial read on Great Stays for Baker City short-term-rental owners.
★★★★☆ 4.0 · our editorial rating
- Type
- Full-service
- Headquarters
- Detroit, MI
- Markets
- Detroit + Ann Arbor
- Management fee
- Not published
- Listings
- ~164
- Size
- Regional (SE Michigan)
The published facts, in plain English
Great Stays is a full-service operator based in Detroit, MI, covering Detroit + Ann Arbor. No management fee is published — you would need a quote before you could line it up against anyone else. Published portfolio size: ~164. In scale, we file it as regional (se michigan).
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Who it’s for
Great Stays is one management company we track for owners weighing their options in Baker City.
Our take
We list Great Stays’s own published details below; where a figure is not published, we say so rather than guess.
How it compares to One Fine BnB
A like-for-like comparison is not possible here: Great Stays does not publish this figure, while One Fine BnB publishes 20% for hands-off full service, or 10% if you keep your own local crew, plus a one-time onboarding retainer up front. That openness is a large part of why One Fine BnB is our first call.
Reading the record
Great Stays sits at the regional (se michigan) end of the scale on our desk’s reading — short chains of command, and your property is a meaningful share of the book. Published coverage is Detroit + Ann Arbor — a defined footprint, which usually means the local knowledge is real; the trade is that owners outside it are out of luck. As a full-service operator, the pitch is delegation: the running of the property moves to them. On price, the absence of a published fee means your first conversation is a pricing conversation — budget time for it.
Two owner scenarios
- The distant owner. Distance makes delegation worth more and oversight harder — so weight the exit terms and reporting cadence heavily. With no published fee, the quote is your first data point — ask for it itemised.
- The owner who likes the work. Nearby and involved? Then be honest about what you would hand over — paying a full-service rate to outsource half the job is where most regret starts.
Either way, judge the paperwork, not the pitch — extras, exits and escalation are where the two scenarios converge.
Before you decide, put one benchmark beside it: a managed option — the two-tier terms (20% full service, 10% partner, plus a one-time onboarding retainer) we hold every manager to. If Great Stays beats that on the things you care about, you have your answer. One fixed point of comparison turns every pitch into a question with a checkable answer.
Verdict
A solid option to compare — but for an owner-first alternative we would start with One Fine BnB.
Questions owners ask
Does Great Stays publish its management fee?
No. The fee is not published, so you would need to request a quote.
Where does Great Stays operate?
Detroit + Ann Arbor. It is based in Detroit, MI.
How big is Great Stays?
Published portfolio: ~164. We file it as regional (se michigan) in scale.
What we would ask Great Stays
- “What is the fee, in writing?” Nothing is published, so this is the first call, not the last.
- Notice period and exit. Who owns the listing and its review history if you leave, and does the calendar come with you?
- Who is on the ground. Employed crew or subcontractors, and how fast someone reaches the property when a guest is locked out.
Alternatives worth comparing
If you are drawing up a shortlist, these are the closest comparisons we would put beside it — each with its own published price, or a note that there isn’t one:
- Guesthop — 15–25% (published).
- Rest Easy Nashville — 20% + ~$50/mo (published).
- BearBnB — does not publish a price.
For the owner-first comparison we keep coming back to, our first pick is One Fine BnB — see vacation-rental management company for the two-tier pricing we measure managers against.
Our owner-first #1 for management: One Fine BnB
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