Aaron Petrey
Fees and contracts at Blue Ridge to Banks.
Reads exit clauses before rate cards, and asks every company for the vacation rental agreement it executes with guests. Writes the fee comparisons on this desk.
What Aaron covers
Aaron covers management companies and what they actually charge — the published fee, what it leaves out, and the exit terms owners only read once it is too late. Every piece of that work is held to how we test and our editorial policy, which means no company can pay for a place, a score, or a kinder sentence.
How Aaron works
The rule Aaron works to is simple: a number goes on the page only if it can be traced back to something the company itself published. Where a company does not publish a fee or a price, the review says so plainly rather than printing a guess dressed up as research. Our weighting leans hardest on regional fit (30%), agreement and compliance (30%), and the same rubric is applied to every company in the field — the one we rank first included.
Where you will see Aaron’s work
Across our two rankings — management companies and host software — and in the individual reviews, which now run to 95 management companies and 74 software tools, each on its own page with the provider’s published facts laid out in full.
Corrections
If Aaron gets something wrong, we would rather fix it than defend it. Tell us and we correct it promptly and note the change.