For owners re-shopping · The Forgotten Coast
Your manager was just sold. We live here.
Owners across the coast are re-shopping their management for the first time in years. Here's what changed, what switching actually involves, and the numbers we print for everyone.
- 0 to 20%
- Every rate printed, à la carte to Full Service.
- $0
- Cleaning markup. Billed at cost.
- 0
- Fees hidden anywhere on your statement.
- 100%
- Of turns photo-verified before check-in.
What happened
The coast's management consolidated. Fast.
Over the past few years, national platforms bought up longtime local management books across the Panhandle. Brands merged, back offices centralized, and local staff got smaller. Resort Vacation Properties' longtime St. George Island book now operates under a national platform, and owners across Franklin and Gulf counties have spent the past year finding out what off-island management feels like.
None of this is a scandal. Consolidation is a strategy, and for some owners it works. But turning a beach house between an 11 a.m. checkout and a 4 p.m. check-in is not a strategy. It's a trade, done well by people who live near the bridge and done poorly from anywhere else.
If you found this page searching for a local alternative on the Forgotten Coast, here's exactly what ours looks like.
What switching looks like
Two weeks. No onboarding fee. No fixed contract.
We keep your book by earning it monthly, not by locking you in. The handover is ours to run; your job is one email.
We mirror your bookings
Your existing calendar imports as-is. Every reservation keeps its dates and its rate: nothing cancels, nothing moves.
Your guests keep their reservations
Arriving guests notice exactly one change: the home is turned by our own crews, photo-verified before check-in.
Listings, keys and a crew walk-through
We take over listings and guest messaging, walk the home with a crew lead, and photograph a condition baseline you can see.
Your first itemized statement
Gross, channel fees, our printed commission, cleaning at cost, your net. Every line traceable from the first month, not someday.
The fee conversation
Our rates are printed. That's the whole pitch.
Capeora · printed for everyone
- 0%À la carte: flat rates for exactly the services you choose
- 5%List: synced everywhere, you host and clean
- 10%Host: we take every guest message
- 15%Care: our crews turn the home, at cost
- 20%Full Service: truly hands-off, and the ceiling
Cleaning billed at cost. No onboarding fee, no junk fees, and you keep cancelled-booking revenue. Full plan details
The industry norm
- “Call for a quote.”
- A rate that depends on how well you negotiate.
- An agreement that arrives as a PDF, not a public page.
- A fee schedule you piece together from your statements.
We're not naming numbers for anyone else. Most don't publish them, and that gap is the point.
Your money, your accounts
Your guest revenue never passes through our accounts.
Switching managers usually means re-routing your revenue through somebody new. Not here. You stay the merchant of record: guest payments land in your accounts, and we invoice our printed fee against a statement you can trace line by line.
We built it that way on purpose. A manager who never holds your money has exactly one way to keep your business: doing the work well enough that you stay.
Get your switch plan.
Send your address and your current setup to owners@capeora.com. Our local team builds your projection and your two-week handover plan by hand, not from a call queue.
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