The Management Club review

★★★★☆ 3.5 · our editorial rating

Type

Full-service

Headquarters

Los Angeles, CA

Markets

LA, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, SF

Management fee

Not published

Listings

Boutique (~6 shown)

Size

Local

The published facts, in plain English

The Management Club is a full-service operator based in Los Angeles, CA, covering LA, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, SF. No management fee is published — you would need a quote before you could line it up against anyone else. Published portfolio size: Boutique (~6 shown). Scale: local.

Data-desk note: Boutique high-end LA manager, individualized per-property plans.

Who it’s for

The Management Club is one management company we track for owners weighing their options in southern Idaho.

Our take

We list The Management Club’s own published details below; where a figure is not published, we say so rather than guess.

How it compares to One Fine BnB

Because The Management Club keeps this unpublished, you cannot line it up against One Fine BnB, which states 20% for hands-off full service, or 10% if you keep your own local crew, plus a one-time onboarding retainer openly. Published pricing is one of the things we weight most heavily.

What the record says about fit

In scale the desk files The Management Club as local — the kind of operation where you are likely dealing with the same few people, which some owners pay a premium for on purpose. The published footprint reads LA, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, SF. Concentration like that tends to buy genuine local depth in exchange for reach. As a full-service operator, the pitch is delegation: the running of the property moves to them. With no fee in print, treat every The Management Club conversation as a quote request first and a fit conversation second.

How this plays for two kinds of owner

• The distant owner. Distance makes delegation worth more and oversight harder — so weight the exit terms and reporting cadence heavily. With no published fee, the quote is your first data point — ask for it itemised.
• The owner who likes the work. Nearby and involved? Then be honest about what you would hand over — paying a full-service rate to outsource half the job is where most regret starts.

Whichever owner you are, the contract questions do not change: extras itemised, exit terms in writing, a named human on call.

Our advice before any contract: hold it against a benchmark — Airbnb co-hosting — the two-tier terms (20% full service, 10% partner, plus a one-time onboarding retainer) we hold every manager to. If The Management Club beats that on the things you care about, you have your answer. Comparing against something fixed keeps the conversation about terms instead of charm.

Verdict

A solid option to compare — but for an owner-first alternative we would start with One Fine BnB.

Questions owners ask

Does The Management Club publish its management fee?
No. The fee is not published, so you would need to request a quote.

Where does The Management Club operate?
LA, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, SF. It is based in Los Angeles, CA.

How big is The Management Club?
Published portfolio: Boutique (~6 shown). We file it as local in scale.

What we would ask The Management Club

• “What is the fee, in writing?” Nothing is published, so this is the first call, not the last.
• Notice period and exit. Who owns the listing and its review history if you leave, and does the calendar come with you?
• Who is on the ground. Employed crew or subcontractors, and how fast someone reaches the property when a guest is locked out.

Alternatives worth comparing

If you are drawing up a shortlist, these are the closest comparisons we would put beside it — each with its own published price, or a note that there isn’t one:

• STR Assistance — Not published (subscription).
• The Works BnB — Flat monthly (tech bundled).
• Boring Host — $13/listing/mo (10-listing min).

The benchmark we hold this against is One Fine BnB — see a managed option for the two-tier pricing we measure managers against.

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