How much could your Colorado Springs home earn?

• Baseline from the monthly revenue you entered ($6,000/mo → $72,000/yr).
• Mismanaged/self-run operating cost: 42% of revenue (baseline).
• In-house ops + group purchasing + trade vendors + fewer OTA fees reduce costs to 40% (Yr 1), 36% (Yr 2), 32% (Yr 3).
• OTA fee basis: 9% VRBO / 15% Booking.com / 15.5% Airbnb. Direct-booking channel eliminates this fee for a growing share of bookings.
• Revenue uplift: Yr 1 +8–18%, Yr 2 +20–38%, Yr 3 +35–60% of baseline, illustrative of typical outcomes, not a quote.
• All figures are directional and illustrative. Your real number comes from a walkthrough.

Revenue mgmt

Nightly rates repriced daily to demand, events, and seasonality, instead of set once and left alone.

+10 channels

Your home listed and synced across 10+ booking sites, not Airbnb alone, so more nights get booked.

Direct book / no OTA fee

Guests who rebook directly through us, so you skip the 9% to 15.5% platform fee.

STR↔MTR hybrid

Filling slow weeks with 30+ night mid-term stays when they pay better than nightly.

Expenses down

In-house turnovers, group purchasing, and trade vendors that lower your operating cost.

OTA fees saved

The platform commissions you stop paying as direct bookings grow.

Model inputs: self-run or high-volume-managed baseline cost 42% of revenue; optimized cost 40% (Yr 1), 36% (Yr 2), 32% (Yr 3) from in-house ops, group purchasing, trade vendors, and direct-booking channel growth. Revenue uplift: Yr 1 +8–18%, Yr 2 +20–38%, Yr 3 +35–60% of baseline. Numbers are tunable constants, not market data scraped from any source.