VRBO Profit Calculator
Revenue
Avg. Guest Stay Duration
Nightly Rate You're Charging ($)*
# of Nights Available Per Year For Bookings*
Percentage Occupied Per Year (%)*
Pet Fee Charged to Guest ($)
Pet Fee Option
Cleaning Fee Charged to Guest ($)
Cleaning Fee Option
Estimated Annual Revenue: $0
Expenses
VRBO Commission Fee (%)
Actual Cleaning Cost Per Stay ($)
Monthly Mortgage Payment ($)
Yearly Taxes and Other Costs ($)
Estimated Annual Expenses: $0
Estimated Annual Profit: $0
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Calculator Key:
Avg. Guest Stay Duration (required input): This is the assumed average length of stay for your guests for each booking.
Nightly Rate You're Charging ($) (required input): The dollar amount you are charging your guest per night's stay
# of Nights Available Per Year For Bookings (required input): The number of nights out of a year that you are making your VRBO available to be booked
Percentage Occupied Per Year (%): The percentage value of the available/book-able nights that you think you will be able to actually book guests
Pet Fee Charged to Guest ($): The dollar amount you are charging your guest for bringing pets.
Pet Fee Option: How is the pet fee charged to the guest (per stay or per night)
Cleaning Fee Charged to Guest ($): The dollar amount you are charging your guest for cleaning up after them.
Cleaning Fee Option: How is the cleaning fee charged to the guest (per stay or per night)
VRBO Commission Fee (%): How much, in percentage, does VRBO charge you for listing on their platform (currently this is ~8% of total revenue)
Actual Cleaning Cost Per Stay ($): The dollar amount you ACTUALLY pay for cleaning services
Monthly Mortgage Payment ($): The MONTHLY dollar amount of your mortgage payment (if any)
Yearly Taxes and Other Costs ($): The dollar amount of taxes and other annual costs
How to Calculate Your VRBO Profit?
Knowing your earning potential for a particular property is an important piece of information for purchasing an investment property or even for determining if managing a property is worth it. In order to calculate your potential profits on VRBO, you have to first understand what the sources of revenue for you as a host are. When setting up your listing, you'll go through a process where you specific these sources. First, is the nightly rate you will charge to your guest:
Second, VRBO gives you input fields to charge your guest for having pets as well as a cleaning fee.
You can select the pet and cleaning fees to be charged per stay or per night. This gives you a bit of flexibility.
As for the expenses, VRBO charges a commission fee from you for using their marketplace and platform.
Currently, this fee is comprised of:
- 5% commission charged for the rental amount, any fees
- 3% payment processing fee charged on the total payment amount you receive from your traveler
This totals approximately 8% of your revenue. You can read more about their fees here.
Any other expenses are from operating your short term rental business like any mortgage payments, cleaning costs, taxes, repairs, etc.
Once you've gathered your best guess of all of these values, plug them into the fields above and watch how the profit, revenue, and expenses change.
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