For vacation rental owners
We get your property on 30+ booking platforms, build up your reviews, and fill your calendar without dropping your rates.
Walk away for any reason in your first 90 days and we refund every management fee you have paid. Not a partial credit. All of it.
Hire Mirage Vacations for beachfront short-term rental management in Galveston and Port Aransas. Austin and Houston are extra coverage, not the headline. Full-service management is 15% of nightly rent. Photography is fronted and paid back from early earnings. It is not free. Walk away in 90 days and management fees are refunded.
Owners, in their own words
Two owners on what changed after our team took over their property.
"Zero complaints. It stays occupied. I don't do anything at all. I collect a check or collect whatever money every month. It gets wired straight to my account."
"Communication is superb. There's just always somebody available at four in the morning, four in the afternoon. A twenty four seven, very quick response time."
"From what I was getting booked at was probably like 40-50% monthly. Now it's going to like somewhere between 70 to 90%."
"I'm pretty hands off now. I don't have to take care of anything. You kind of manage all the day to day work."
What's going wrong
Owning a nice place isn't enough to stay booked anymore. There are two things standing between your home and a full calendar, and almost every rental we look at is losing on one of them. Usually both.
It's almost never the house. It's that guests never see it. Four things quietly push your listing down the search results, and most owners react by dropping the price, which only makes it worse.
Every year more homes near you go up on the same sites, chasing the same guests on the same weekends. Having a nice place isn't enough to get found anymore.
Airbnb decides who shows up first based on your photos, your reviews, how fast you reply and how your price compares nearby. If you're on page three, you may as well not be listed.
If your place only sits on one or two channels, one change to their search decides your whole year. Every channel you're not on is a group of guests who will never see your place.
Reviews are the first thing a guest reads, and Airbnb uses them to decide where you show up. Most owners forget to ask, or ask at the wrong moment.
Even when the calendar is full, every booking is a check-in, a clean, an inspection and a run of messages. The moment one of those slips, it shows up in your reviews.
Check-in questions, lockout codes, the wifi password, someone messaging at 4am. Airbnb tracks how fast you reply, so a slow answer pushes you further down the results.
One bad clean turns into a review that sits on your listing for years. That means a cleaner you trust and somebody actually checking the work before the next guest walks in.
The AC goes out on a Saturday in August. If nobody nearby can get there fast, that's a refund, a bad review and months of damage to your listing.
The money comes in, but it costs you your evenings, your weekends and your holidays. Most owners want the same number without the phone going off.
How we fix it
None of this is theory. This is what we do to get an above 80% occupancy across our entire portfolio of rentals we manage.
We shoot your place properly, write the listing fresh for each site instead of copying and pasting, and keep adjusting the wording so you stay near the top. We watch where you're showing up and fix it when you slip.
Your place goes live on more than 30 booking sites, plus direct bookings through us. So no single site controls your year, and a slow week on one gets filled by another.
Most managers plug in a dynamic pricing tool and let it run. We manually adjust pricing on top of dynamic pricing software. Priced too high and your calendar sits empty. Priced too low and you just handed money back on a booking you were going to get anyway.
Most managers send an automated message and hope. Our team picks up the phone and calls every guest on the day they check out. It lands more reviews, and if something was off we hear it on that call instead of reading it in public.
Every guest who stays at your place goes into a campaign built around your home, not our portfolio. We email and text them when it is time to plan the next trip, pointing them back to the property they already liked. One-off stays turn into guests who come back year after year. And that list belongs to your home. If you ever leave us and run the place yourself, those repeat guests stay with the property.
We build and run ad campaigns on Meta aimed at people actively planning their next trip, and send them straight to your property on our direct booking page. No platform sits in the middle taking a cut of the stay. You keep more of the nightly rate and so do we, which is exactly why we push this as hard as we do.
A local team you can rely on answers guests around the clock, cleans to a checklist built for your place, and photographs every turnover before the next guest arrives. Small repairs get done the same day. Anything bigger, we get you a quote first and you decide.
Maximum visibility across 30+ booking platforms.
Why we started, and why we're here
Our founder launched Florida Vacation Collection at the end of 2021 and formalized it as a management company in 2022. The thesis was simple. The market was full of automation tools, dashboards and software, and shockingly weak on actual hospitality.
The big national managers felt like call centers. The small co-hosts felt like hobbyists. There was room for a boutique operator that could do both: five star hospitality, real systems, and real financial intelligence.
That portfolio is now 130+ homes. Every home meets the same standards. Every guest gets the same experience. And owners get the thing that is genuinely rare in this industry, which is responsive, real communication.
Mirage Vacations is that same team, taking what works into a new market. We are deliberately starting small here, the same way we started in Florida, because the standard only holds if we are not onboarding faster than we can operate. You are not betting on a new company finding its feet. You are getting an operation that has already been built, tested and refined across four years and 130 properties.
Owner reviews
Verified Google reviews from owners in our Florida portfolio, Florida Vacation Collection.
I've been working with Tampa Vacation Collections to manage my short-term rental property in Little Harbor, FL, and I can confidently say this has been one of the best decisions I've made as a property owner. Their professionalism, attention to detail, and genuine care for both the property and the guest experience have been outstanding. Financially, I've seen a significant increase in revenue since partnering with them.
I am an owner of two properties. A skeptic when they initially contacted me. I have been using the same company for many years. In fact, I gave him a short term contract initially for one property, like a test. They have performed themselves and have earned my confidence with both properties. They have more than doubled the return. I strongly recommend them.
I use Tampa Vacation Collections as my primary source for renting and managing my condo. Henri Wick and his team do an exceptional job. They make sure myself and most importantly our guests are well taken care of. They have someone on call 24/7 to make sure everyone has a pleasant experience. I highly recommend them.
I can't say enough good things about my experience working with Tampa Vacation Collection! They have been an absolute game-changer for my Airbnb business. Their team handled everything from staging and photography to creating an optimized listing that instantly stood out. Within days of going live, bookings started rolling in. I've consistently earned more each month than I ever did managing the listing on my own.
With a very demanding job and 2 small children, my time is scarce. I absolutely love and appreciate all that this company has done to manage my property! In addition to all the incredible and FREE consultations on how to increase the value of the property and more importantly, how to increase my occupancy!! 10 stars.
As an Airbnb owner, I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks for The Tampa Vacation Collection's efforts in securing Airbnb rentals for my unit. Your help has been a huge relief for my monthly mortgage, insurance, HOA, and fees. I'm incredibly grateful for the income your company generated, and it has really helped me get back on track financially.
Common questions
Here is what most owners want to know before handing over a property.
Our guarantee
Walk away at any point in your first 90 days, for any reason at all, and we refund every management fee you have paid us. Not a partial credit and not a prorated amount. All of it. You keep the photography, the listings and the reviews we built for you in that time.
Free property audit
Book a quick 30 minute call where we'll look at your property, tell you exactly where you're losing bookings, and what we think it should realistically be earning. Even if we don't work together, you'll walk away with a clear plan on what needs fixing.