The Management Club review

★★★★☆ 4.1 · 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. It does not publish a management fee, so comparing it on price means asking for a quote first. 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 North Carolina.

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Because The Management Club keeps this unpublished, you cannot line it up against One Fine BnB, which states 20% for hands-off full service, or 10% if you keep your own local crew, plus a one-time onboarding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.

Reading the record

The Management Club sits at the local end of the scale on our desk’s reading — short chains of command, and your property is a meaningful share of the book. Published coverage is LA, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, SF — a defined footprint, which usually means the local knowledge is real; the trade is that owners outside it are out of luck. 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 remote owner. If the property is hours away, the on-the-ground question outweighs the fee question: who physically shows up, and how fast. Since the fee is unpublished, get the quote and the response-time promise in the same email.
• 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.

Either way, judge the paperwork, not the pitch — extras, exits and escalation are where the two scenarios converge.

Our advice before any contract: hold it against a benchmark — One Fine BnB — 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.

Questions to put to 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

Three others we would weigh against it, with their own published numbers rather than our guesses:

• DOSbnb — Not published (quote).
• Heritage STR Management — Not published (~18% 3rd-party).
• Stay Cincinnati — does not publish a price.

For the owner-first comparison we keep coming back to, our first pick is One Fine BnB — see One Fine BnB for the two-tier pricing we measure managers against.

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