Our Philosophy Sets Us Apart

The main thing that sets Top of the Mountain apart from other property management companies is our Philosophy. We know that strong relationships exists where all parties share a common purpose and vision. We understand that increasing your rental income is only part of your bottom line and that property management expenses have to be minimized for you to truly benefit the most from your relationship to your property management company. By thinking of you as a "joint venture" partner rather than a customer, we look for opportunities where we mutually benefit and avoid treating you as a source of income.

And of course, we provide full transparency of all our accounting and booking activities so you can audit our actions and help us correct errors if, and when, you find them. We know our home owners trust us, but we provide the highest level of accounting transparency to help our relationship stay strong through good markets and bad (get our white paper to understand how our philosophy really sets us apart during market recessions or declines!).

We want our owners to know that we are truly grateful to them for allowing us the opportunity to share in the revenue potential that exists because they have used their wealth, hard work and savings to purchase a property at Sun Peaks. We know that your rental property represents a considerable investment for you and that the company you choose to manage it can't truly represent your interests without operating from this understanding. We understand, we care, and we'll do our best to earn your gratitude in return.

Key Benefits of Choosing Top of the Mountain Accommodations To Manage Your Home

• Owners retain the highest earnings on all bookings because we use a Hybrid Fee Structure that combines the best features of our competitions' owner payout models on a booking-by-booking case to ensure owners earn the most the market has to offer. Fill out the form to get our White Paper and see how we do this!
• Enjoy peace of mind knowing your home is well cared for by a family run busiess with many years experience in this market! Stay involved at all times or leave it all to us with full transparency and reporting so you can review your bottom line whenever you want.
• Our “Just Over Breakeven” fees for maintenance, service or expenses paid by owners means you’ll retain more of your earnings, so if you're tired of get getting “nickeled and dimed” by your current property manager, that ends with TOTM.
• Full procedure driven quality control systems for damage inspection and remediation as needed after guest departures to protect your home.
• With over 15 years of experience marketing and booking homes at Sun Peaks using Airbnb, VRBO, Travel Wholesalers, and direct to market, we always booking at levels above our competition.

Our Hybrid Fee Structure Changes Everything!

For most of the history of Sun Peaks, Property Managers used some variation of a 60/40 (owner/agent) fee structure based on the full pretax price of the booking to calculate the fees. Cleaning, administrative and processing costs were covered by the property manager's 40% fee. In recent years, a creative alternative fee structure has gained a lot of attention by paying owners 75% of the nightly rates of the booking but with separate cleaning and processing fees charged and retained by the property manager. On the face of it, the 75/25+ seems like the better fee structure, and with the average length of booking increasing steadily since the pandemic, it really does pay owners more on many bookings. But there are some real risks with this fee structure used exclusively during market downturns or recesssions (get our White Paper to learn how this model might do in a recession).

However, both models have their weaknesses and their strengths. For instance, on shorter term bookings or during lower demand times where rates are lower, the 75/25+ model can often end up paying the owner around 40% of the booking because the cleaning fee represents a high percentage of the total price paid. Obviously, in these cases, a 60/40 on the pretax is better for owners. However, on longer term bookings during high season rates, the 75/25+ pays owners more.

Top of the Mountain Accommodations pays out owners using a Hybrid Fee structure combining these two different models by calculating owner payouts on a booking-by-booking basis depending on which model provides owners the higher rate. So it doesn't matter if the bookings are during the summer, shoulder, early winter, New Years, short stays, or long stays, you'll always earn the highest return offered in the market. To understand how this works and learn more, fill out the form to get our White Paper.

Our purpose in setting our rates this way is to elminiate any question about which fee structure pays out the best. Neither fee structure alone is always the best, but a Hybrid Fee Structure using both will ALWAYS pay you more. Now, you can choose Top of the Mountain Accommodations to manage your home based on our reputation in the market, because our Hybrid Fee Structure ensures you're going to earn the best returns.