Tired of paying all those middleman fees on vacation rentals? After the 15% “service fee”, a $200 “cleaning fee”, a $125 “damage insurance fee” etc, you’ll end up paying 35-40% more on a Vacasa St. Croix vacation rental.
Be smart and book directly here with the owner! And use all that extra money on a rental car, sunset cruises and lobster dinners with champagne! 🦞 🥂
Villa Margarita is an award-winning beachfront vacation rental in St Croix with a pool, Tiki Bar, and 3 private Suites with incredible 180° sea views just feet from the water.
Click on the slideshow here and see for yourself.
Simply stunning 180° sea views from every suite
Fresh pool, sun deck, outdoor dining, grill
relax at the tiki bar
Sandy beach to the left for swimming & Snorkeling
Coral beach to the right for exploring & sea shell gathering
Idyllic & lush setting
Guaranteed lowest price in St. Croix:
find a better price on a private beachfront villa with pool and we’ll match it!
Villa Margarita has a 5-night minimum stay requirement, and like most beachfront villas you will need a car.
Vacasa St Croix USVI vacation rentals
If Villa Margarita is already booked, you’ll need to look elsewhere.
However, as of mid-2023 Vacasa is not yet operating on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. So you’ll have to us the usual channels for vacation rentals like VRBO, FlipKey, Airbnb, etc.
We expect Vacasa will soon establish an operating presence in the USVI, so for all St. Croix vacation rental property owners and property management companies, here’s some info about Vacasa, its vacation rental management business and practices, successful case studies, and other important things to consider for when Vacasa does reach St. Croix.
We hope you find it useful!
Potential Vacasa vacation rental services for St. Croix USVI
Vacasa provides the following vacation rental management services:
Setting up a vacation rental property (i.e onboarding) with Vacasa:
Vacasa helps vacation rental property owners and managers prepare & list their properties. This includes:
- homeowner-driven onboarding system
- 3D virtual home tours
- custom copywriting
- high-quality photos of the property
- optimized listing
Attracting guests to your vacation rental
- listings on all top booking sites
- targeted digital marketing
- streamlined mobile app
- dedicated reservation agents
- 24/7 guest service
Operating services
- dynamic pricing technology
- professional cleaning
- stocking guest amenities
- handling payments
- screening guests and providing damage coverage
Customer support
- owner holds
- no fixed contracts
- presence of local staff in every market
- coordinating inspections and maintenance
- taxes / permit assistance
What will St. Croix vacation rental owners get for the Vacasa fees?
Here’s what’s included in the fees for owners & managers:
- handling city / county permitting & regulations
- an online owner account to follow earnings, do maintenance requests, prepare taxes, etc,
- full financial reporting & bookkeeping
- extensive marketing services like :
- creating professional, high-quality online listings with great photographs, written to maximize SEO (search engine results), and creating 360-degree walk-throughs and virtual home tours
- providing wide presence on all major booking platforms like FlipKey, Vrbo, Airbnb, etc,
- dynamic rate-setting technology to adjust the price to real-time market demand and competition
- targeted email marketing
- using social media to broaden reach
Also keep in mind that your guests also get benefits from Vacasa services which increase satisfaction and revenue, like:
- 24/7 guest customer support before and during their stay
- 24/7 on-the-ground assistance
- handle payments
- allow guests to check in, know the rules, rules, find WiFi passwords, etc with handy smartphone apps.
Some real-life Vacasa vacation rental experiences. Will St. Croix be different?
Vacasa FAQs (frequently asked questions)
How will Vacasa St. Croix USVI work?
Vacasa works directly with vacation property owners and managers. To start, they will confirm permits, clean, do an initial inspection, and prepare attractive online listings for the property. Then they’ll full-service manage the property, including:
- managing listings on all major booking platforms (OTAs)
- create attractive photographs, 360-degree tours, and crisp descriptions
- leverage technology to automatically update your prices for maximum revenue
- provide 24/7 on-the-ground assistance for your guests
- conduct regular quality professional cleaning & housekeeping (usually subcontracting with local cleaning companies)
How much will Vacasa charge St. Croix rental owners?
Management fees for vacation rental property management ranges between 10% and 50% of revenue. Vacasa’s are on the high side, between 40-50%. Remember that not all vacation rental managers have the same service, or charge for them in the same way, so when shopping for a vacation rental manager, you usually get what you pay for. If the fee is low, then probably the services are not comprehensive or high quality. Fees also vary by local market due to many competitive factors.
Should I hire a property manager like Vacasa for my St. Croix vacation rental property at all?
This depends entirely on how comfortable you are with directly managing the entire vacation rental process, how much time you have, and what your options are to maximize revenue on your rental. It will differ for each owner. A full-service vacation rental manager like Vacasa can cover booking, marketing, housekeeping, etc, leaving very little for the owner to bother with. But that comes at the price of giving up ~40-50% of the revenue.
Of course you can manage the entire process yourself, but often you’ll find it’s a full-time job which you can’t or don’t want to do. Factors to consider are your lifestyle, free time, abilities, your future plans, etc. An additional hurdle for St. Croix vacation rental property owners are they usually are not locally based on STX, making remote management a lot more complicated.
How do Vacasa fees compare with others?
Difficult to directly answer because the associated services vary so much. In general, most vacation rental managers charge 10% to 50% of the revenue. The lower end is simply marketing to guests, while the higher end is turn-key management services like Vacasa. Best to shop around, get quotes, then figure out which package works best for you.
Will using Vacasa St. Croix for my vacation rentals increase my income?
It the following video, Vacasa’s CEO explains to Jim Cramer how using Vacasa increases owner’s income by 20%. If true, this could be a boon to St. Croix rental property owners.
Youtube playlist for Vacasa St. Croix vacation rentals
There are a number of useful videos showing how Vacasa effectively manages and markets vacation rental properties, and uses the latest technology to maximize profits and enhance the guest experience.
So even though Vacasa has not yet established a local STX presence, there is still a lot that St. Croix property owners can learn from these videos and techniques. Take a look and let us know.
So that’s there scoop on how Vacasa St. Croix USVI vacation rentals might look like when they come to the island.
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