Research: what hurts when you host: StayTurn

StayTurn research data

What hurts when you host, in numbers

An interactive view of the named public sources below, published vendor pricing, and StayTurn tool demos. This is not a prevalence study and nothing here is ranked. Every figure shows its source and retrieval date.

What hurts Turn costs Evidence outcomes

8.3 hrs/week

Average time hosts report spending managing their listings each week.

Source

PriceLabs Global Host Report 2025, survey of 1,400+ verified hosts. hello.pricelabs.co/global-host-report. Retrieved August 14, 2026.

76%

Hosts who name admin and taxes among their most time-consuming work.

Source

PriceLabs Global Host Report 2025, survey of 1,400+ verified hosts. hello.pricelabs.co/global-host-report. Retrieved August 14, 2026.

72%

Hosts who name cleaning and maintenance among their most time-consuming work.

Source

PriceLabs Global Host Report 2025, survey of 1,400+ verified hosts. hello.pricelabs.co/global-host-report. Retrieved August 14, 2026.

Admin and taxes named most time-consuming76%

Cleaning and maintenance named most time-consuming72%

Both shares are from the PriceLabs Global Host Report 2025 (1,400+ verified hosts). Vendor-published survey, cited with attribution.

The operating themes behind the numbers

Recurring operational problem areas for short-term-rental hosts, drawn from the public sources on this page and from StayTurn's own operating work. Listed alphabetically, unranked.

Access and smart-lock failures
Calendar sync and double bookings
Cleaning and turnover coordination
Financial visibility and owner reports
Guest communication overload
Guest screening
Inventory and supplies
Maintenance and work orders
Platform and algorithm anxiety
Pricing complexity
Review fear and guest disputes
Scaling past the first few units
Staff and cleaner coordination
Task and deadline tracking
Tool fragmentation and app sprawl

StayTurn works on the record-keeping slice of these themes: the photos, receipts, notes, and cleaner handoffs a host keeps for each stay.

Three-year cost of portfolio operations tools at published vendor prices, compared with StayTurn one-time licenses. Products are not feature-equivalent, and each vendor's billing basis is shown below. Vendor pricing pages retrieved August 10, 2026.

10 properties, 3 years

Published vendor pricing, computed over three years. StayTurn Team is a one-time purchase.

Hospitable$5,670.72

OwnerRez$4,572

Turno$2,880

Operto Teams$2,520

ResortCleaning$1,800

StayTurn Team, one time$100

Billing basis per vendor

Turno: $96 per property annual plan. ResortCleaning: $5 per property monthly with a $20 monthly minimum. Operto Teams: $7 per property monthly. Hospitable: $59 for two properties plus $15 each additional, with a 12 percent annual discount. OwnerRez: published sliding scale. StayTurn: live Shopify catalog. Breezeway, Properly, and Hostfully publish no computable volume rates, so NOT FOUND is recorded for them instead of an estimate.

50 properties, 3 years

Published vendor pricing, computed over three years. StayTurn Property Manager is a one-time purchase.

Hospitable$24,678.72

Turno$14,400

OwnerRez$13,464

Operto Teams$12,600

ResortCleaning$9,000

StayTurn Property Manager, one time$299

Billing basis per vendor

Same published bases as the 10-property view, computed at 50 properties over three years. Breezeway, Properly, and Hostfully publish no computable volume rates, so NOT FOUND is recorded for them instead of an estimate. Products are not feature-equivalent.

Estimate your turnover cost Free StayTurn tool. Totals come from your entries only.

StayTurn does not publish customer outcome statistics. This tab shows what a complete stay record contains. Every record value below is synthetic DEMO data.

The eight surfaces in the shipped app

Stay Protocol
Stay record
Import
Photo drop
Turn handoff
Express baseline
Turn prep
Install

Synthetic DEMO data

What one complete stay record holds, demo stay SYN-STAY-014

Illustrative composition of a single dated stay record in the StayTurn workflow. Demo values, not customer data.

Photos, before and after12

Condition notes5

Receipts3

Cleaner handoff1

Exported dated packet1

Check your record completeness Free StayTurn tool. Walk one recent stay through the checklist and see what your record is missing.

Sources and provenance

PriceLabs, Global Host Report 2025

Survey of 1,400+ verified hosts across five languages, per the report page. Used for the hours-per-week and time-consumption figures above, cited with attribution.

hello.pricelabs.co/global-host-report · Retrieved August 14, 2026

Hostfully, Vacation Rental Tech Stack Study

Analysis of 2,248 active short-term-rental operators on the Hostfully platform, per the study page. Cited as a named public source for the operating themes.

hostfully.com/reports/tech-stack-study · Retrieved August 14, 2026

Published vendor pricing pages

Turno, ResortCleaning, Operto Teams, Hospitable, and OwnerRez published pricing, retrieved August 10, 2026. Published pricing changes without notice. Products are not feature-equivalent.

Values marked synthetic DEMO data are illustrative only and describe no customer. StayTurn's own operator interviews are private, are not published, and are not presented here as market evidence.

StayTurn research

Research synthesis: what hurts when you host

This page summarizes named public sources and operating themes. It is not a prevalence study, and the themes are not a ranked measure of the short-term-rental market.

Operating themes

Recurring operational problem areas for short-term-rental hosts, drawn from the public sources below and from StayTurn's own operating work. Listed alphabetically, unranked.