THE MANDATE — SERVICES

Keep the income. Lose the second job.

Full management if you never want another 11 pm guest message. Co-hosting if you want our systems while your hands stay on the property. Either way the terms are published, flat, and year-to-year — and the team answering your guests is local, not a call centre.

Schmidt Lake Mansion, a Casa Scotia managed property in Hammonds Plains

Full Management

THE COMPLETE MANDATE

We handle guests, cleaners, maintenance, pricing, compliance, and reporting. You get a monthly statement. The fee is 20%, published upfront; cleaning costs are passed to the guest.

Dynamic pricing, repriced daily
24/7 guest desk, local team
Hotel-standard turnovers, inspected
Maintenance & vendor coordination
Registration & levy compliance handled
Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com + direct
Monthly owner statement
Listing, photography & launch
20% FLAT, PUBLISHED UPFRONT · YEAR-TO-YEAR · FEE STARTS AT FIRST CHECK-IN
Start with your number →

Co-Hosting

YOU STAY CLOSE

Our pricing engine, guest desk, and listing craft — your hands on the property. The common first step for owners who aren’t ready to hand over the keys, at the same 20% flat fee and the same standards.

Same dynamic pricing engine
Guest messaging, reviews & ranking
Listing & photo optimization
You keep cleaning & maintenance
SAME TERMS · YOUR CALENDAR ACCESS Co-hosting in detail →
THE PROCESS

From first call to first guest, in weeks — not seasons.

1
The number

Run the estimate. If the band is worth your time, we talk.

2
The walkthrough

One call with the founders; we stress-test the numbers against the property.

3
The setup

Registration, staging, photography, smart access, house manual.

4
The launch

Live on Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com plus direct; pricing engine on.

5
The rhythm

Guests hosted, turnovers inspected, statement at month end.

WHAT YOU KEEP
The deed, the equity, the appreciation
Personal-use weeks you block yourself
Full visibility — every booking, every dollar, in your statement
The final say on rates, rules, and big-ticket repairs
WHAT DISAPPEARS FROM YOUR LIFE
The 11 pm “the wifi is down” message
Turnover scheduling, supply runs, laundry logistics
Rate-guessing against 1,541 listings you can’t see
Registration renewals, levy remittance, review replies
PUBLISHED TERMS

The terms are public because they don’t need a salesperson.

20%
Flat management fee

One published rate on booking revenue. No tiers, no surprises at statement time.

1 yr
Year-to-year agreement

Renewed annually on results. Since 2016, no owner has left us for another manager — listings leave our books when properties sell.

Check-in
When the fee starts

The 20% begins with your first guest’s check-in — not when you sign.

Guest
Pays the cleaning

Turnover costs are carried on the booking, not deducted from your share.

SERVICE AREA: HALIFAX + COMMUNITIES WITHIN ABOUT 90 MINUTES’ DRIVE · TERMS AS PUBLISHED JULY 2026

BEFORE YOU HIRE ANYONE — INCLUDING US

Six questions for anyone who wants your keys.

We wrote the list so you’d ask. Our answers are attached.

1. How many times will my nightly rate change this year?

Every night. The engine was built by our co-founder — a Penn-trained engineer — and it’s the same one that prices the free estimate on this site.

2. What happens to the empty nights between bookings?

We price and package them deliberately — shorter minimums, targeted rates — so gap nights get booked instead of written off.

3. What’s your plan for my January?

Monthly stays. We run an extended-stay channel, so a winter calendar isn’t left dark — it’s offered to a different kind of tenant.

4. How many listings do you price against — and can I see the data?

1,541 active listings across 13 Nova Scotia markets — and yes, the data is published on our market pages, updated monthly.

5. Where do your homes land among their neighbours?

Our published case files show each home against the real earners around it, dated. Ask anyone else the same question.

6. When does your fee start, and what does leaving cost?

Nothing until your first guest checks in. 20% flat, year-to-year — all published above, nothing custom.

THE MATH · ILLUSTRATIVE

The fee, in plain arithmetic.

At $40,000 of booking revenue, the 20% flat fee is $8,000 a year. That buys nightly repricing against the live corpus, a 24/7 guest desk, inspected turnovers, compliance handling, and a monthly statement — at zero owner-hours. The honest question isn’t the percentage; it’s whether the same property, professionally run, clears that bar. The case studies carry real before-and-afters.

Booking revenue (illustrative)$40,000
Management fee (20%)−$8,000
To you, before costs$32,000
Owner hours per week0
FROM THE CASE STUDIES

One owner’s published numbers.

Annual revenue — Serene Modern Lakehouse$165,930
Owner net income$127,400
Average daily rate$744

A five-bedroom lakehouse in Hammonds Plains, run hands-off for Toronto-based owners. Every number as published in our case files.

Read the full case studies →
QUESTIONS OWNERS ASK

Asked before every mandate. Answered in plain terms.

How much does short-term rental management cost in Halifax?

Casa Scotia charges 20% flat on booking revenue — published upfront, no tiers, the same rate for every property. Cleaning costs are carried on the booking, not deducted from your share.

Is there a setup or onboarding fee?

Your management fee starts with your first guest’s check-in — not when you sign. Onboarding is real work (photography, staging, listing build, compliance), and we scope it with you upfront before you commit.

How long is the contract?

Agreements are year-to-year, renewed on results. This is a partnership both sides invest in — you furnish the home, we build its market position — and the record shows it: since 2016 we’ve never lost a listing to another manager.

What does a property manager actually do for a short-term rental?

Everything between your deed and your statement: nightly pricing against tracked comparables, guest communication from inquiry to review, turnover scheduling and inspection, maintenance coordination, registration and levy compliance, and a monthly owner statement. Under full management we run all of it; under co-hosting you keep cleaning and maintenance.

Do you only list on Airbnb?

No — properties run on Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com plus our direct-booking channel, priced consistently across all of them.

Can I still use the property myself?

Yes. You keep personal-use weeks and block them on your own calendar; we coordinate bookings around them.

Self-managingNational chainsCasa Scotia
Who answers the guestYou, at 11 pmA call centreLocal team, 24/7
The feeYour eveningsQuote-basedPublished 20% flat
The contractVaries by contractYear-to-year, published terms
Who knows the propertyYouA rotating queueThe team that launched it
TALK TO THE FOUNDERS

Tell us about the property. We’ll give you an honest read.

A real person replies within one business day. If your property is outside our service area or genuinely better off self-managed, we’ll say so — the honest read is the point.

The engagement starts with your number, not a pitch.