The company I'd have hired for my own properties.

My name is Neil Aneja. For years I've run short-term rentals under another brand — Rent4Vacay — doing everything myself: pricing, guest communication, vendor management, taxes, the occasional 2am phone call about a missing toothbrush. I know what good operations look like because I've had to be the one doing them.

I also know what bad operations look like. I've been the owner on the other side, handing properties to traditional management companies and watching margins disappear into "platform fees," cleaning markups, marketing budgets I couldn't audit, and renewal contracts I needed a lawyer to translate. I watched friends lose 30%, 35%, sometimes 40% of gross bookings to managers who didn't seem to be doing 30% more work than I'd been doing myself.

Eventually I stopped wondering why nobody built it the way I'd want it built and started building it myself. That's Keytostay.

What we do differently

One number. Our fee is 10% of gross bookings. That's it. No setup fees. No platform surcharges. No tiered "premium" service plans. No cleaning markups. No vendor kickbacks. The number on the contract is the number that comes out of your statement.

One service. Every owner gets the full bundle: 24/7 guest comms, dynamic pricing, multi-channel distribution, cleaning coordination, monthly owner statements, $1M liability coverage. There's no "basic plan" we can downgrade you to when we want to charge more for the things you actually need.

One out. Month-to-month. No contracts. If we stop earning our 10%, you walk — same day, no exit fees, no offboarding line item. We designed the service around earning the renewal every single month, because the alternative is being a manager who locks you in and then stops trying.

Why a flat 10% even works

Traditional property managers charge 20-35% because they've built bloated operations: layers of middle management, marketing teams trying to push owners onto worse contract terms, vendor relationships designed to extract referral fees, software stacks that cost more than they should because nobody negotiated the renewal.

We don't have any of that. We're operators, not a tech company that scaled into property management. The technology we use we either build ourselves or buy at fair prices. The team is small and senior. The 10% works because the operation works, not because we're cutting corners on what owners actually need.

Where we're at

Keytostay is early. We launched in 2024. We're picky about which properties we onboard — we'd rather grow half as fast and do it right than spin up cities where we don't have an ops presence. The properties we're managing today are properties we genuinely believe we can do better than the owner's previous manager (or the owner managing themselves).

If you've read this far, you're probably an owner who's been frustrated by the same things I was. I'd genuinely like to talk to you — even if you decide we're not the right fit, the conversation is free and I usually leave them with a few specific suggestions you can act on regardless.

— Neil Aneja, Founder