Kaaterskill Falls
New York's most painted waterfall, and for good reason — go early on a weekday and you'll have the two-tier drop nearly to yourself. By 11 a.m. on a fall Saturday the trailhead is a parking problem. Tell guests both facts.
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Cavmir is an Airbnb marketing agency. We build the brand, the direct-booking website and the marketing for short-term rentals in The Catskills.
The Catskills are the mountains two hours northwest of New York City — Woodstock and Phoenicia in Ulster County, Hunter and Windham in Greene, Livingston Manor down in Sullivan — and over the past decade they've become the East Coast's design-cabin capital. Brooklyn money renovated the farmhouses, architects built the black-clad A-frames, and a weekend up here now means Kaaterskill Falls, a swimming hole on the Esopus, dinner at the Phoenicia Diner, and a wood stove going by nine. The guest is specific: a couple or small group from the city, booking on photography and mood, choosing between two hundred cabins that all claim a hot tub and a view. In a market built on aesthetics, how your listing looks isn't a detail — it's the whole game.
This is a genuine four-season market with two big peaks. Fall foliage — late September through mid-October — is the strongest window of the year, when leaf-season weekends book out months ahead. Summer brings swimming holes, hiking and the festival crowd; winter feeds Hunter, Windham and Belleayre with ski traffic that keeps cabins earning through February. Blended numbers land around $320 a night and low-50s occupancy, but the design-led cabins with strong photography run well above that while dated listings sit empty midweek. The soft spots are predictable: March and April mud season, and Monday-through-Thursday most of the year. The whole market is drive-to — almost every guest is coming up the Thruway or Route 17 from the city — which makes midweek and last-minute demand very responsive to marketing.
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A few of the visual fingerprints we lean into when we shoot, brand and market a The Catskills property — courtesy of the open Wikimedia Commons archive.
Cavmir works the Catskills because this market is won on brand, and most owners don't have one. We name the cabin, shoot it in the light guests are actually buying — dusk, mist, snow, the stove lit — build a direct-booking website that turns one good stay into a repeat guest, and run vacation rental marketing against the midweek and mud-season gaps. We help position and market your property. We never manage it or touch your keys.
America's first great mountain resort opened on a Catskills ledge in 1824, and painters and storytellers did its advertising. Cavmir writes the chapter guests read now.
The Catskills were America's first great mountain resort. Washington Irving set Rip Van Winkle here, the Hudson River School painters made Kaaterskill Falls famous before photography existed, and by the mid-1800s grand hotels like the Catskill Mountain House drew city guests up by steamboat and stage. A century later the region reinvented itself as the Borscht Belt — hundreds of resorts in Sullivan and Ulster counties where generations of New York families summered and half of American stand-up comedy learned its trade. When air travel killed that model in the 1960s and 70s, the big hotels emptied and the region went quiet for decades.
The current chapter began in the 2010s, when Brooklyn priced out its own creative class and the Catskills offered what it had always offered: mountains two hours from the city. This time the form was different — renovated farmhouses, architect A-frames, black-clad cabins with wood stoves and picture windows — and Instagram did what the Hudson River School had done before, selling the landscape one image at a time. Woodstock's arts identity (the town gave the 1969 festival its name, though not its site), Phoenicia's creekside main street and Livingston Manor's fly-fishing heritage each anchor a distinct micro-market. Today the inventory is dominated by individually owned, design-forward whole homes, the guest arrives by car from the five boroughs, and towns across Ulster, Greene and Sullivan counties have moved from ignoring short-term rentals to permitting and capping them — a shift that increasingly favors established, compliant, well-marketed operators over newcomers.
Before the platforms, America's first great mountain resort filled its rooms on paintings, engravings and a famous short story. Cole's canvases and Irving's Rip Van Winkle put these mountains in front of people who had never seen them, and the Mountain House booked the results for over a century. The channel changed; the work is identical: presentation, positioning, and a landscape worth traveling for. It is the same business Cavmir is in today.
Historical images: public domain via Wikimedia Commons — Thomas Cole (Google Art Project), Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress, Mathew Brady studio.
Design is the price axis here more than geography. A photographed-to-death architect cabin near Woodstock or Phoenicia clears $400 to $700 a night in peak windows, while a dated three-bedroom nearby struggles at $200. Hunter and Windham carry a winter premium for ski-walkable or ski-close houses; Livingston Manor and the Sullivan County side run a little gentler with a strong fly-fishing and weekender crowd. Blended market estimates sit around $320 a night at low-50s occupancy. The spread between a branded cabin and a generic listing — often 2x on rate at equal occupancy — is the widest of any market we work in the Northeast, which is exactly the opportunity.
Fall is king: late September through mid-October foliage weekends book out far ahead at the year's best rates. Summer runs strong from June through August on swimming holes, hiking and festivals. Winter holds up around Hunter, Windham and Belleayre from Christmas through February. The soft windows are March-April mud season and midweek in every season — both fixable with marketing, since the entire guest base lives a two-hour drive away and books impulsively when the listing gives them a reason.
There's no statewide short-term-rental license in New York — regulation in the Catskills is entirely town by town, and the towns have been busy. Get your specific town's current rules in writing before you buy or list.
Woodstock requires an STR permit ($250 a year for an owner-occupied room, about $450 plus $50 per extra bedroom for a whole house) and caps non-owner-occupied permits — that cap has been full, with a waitlist, so an investor purchase there doesn't automatically come with the right to rent it. Shandaken (which includes Phoenicia) caps licenses for non-resident owners at 150, a quota reached quickly after adoption, and requires fire-safety inspections and posted emergency information. Hunter and other Greene County towns run their own permit regimes. Sullivan County towns around Livingston Manor have generally been lighter, but rules there are evolving too.
On top of town permits, New York State now applies sales tax to short-term-rental occupancy statewide (since March 2025), and Ulster County levies a 4% occupancy tax — raised from 2% — with Greene, Delaware and Sullivan counties each running their own occupancy taxes at different rates. Penalties for unpermitted operation include fines and losing your place in capped-permit queues. Confirm everything with the town clerk and code office in writing before you advertise.
The Catskills strategic tip: brand the cabin, because the cabin is the product. Guests here don't book a town and then find a house — they fall for one specific image of one specific cabin and plan the weekend around it. A name, a consistent visual identity and photography shot in the moods people are actually buying (dusk, fog, snow, the stove lit) move rate more than any amenity upgrade under five figures.
Tactically: first, shoot in the off-light. Golden hour, blue hour, mist and snowfall are what separate a $450 cabin from a $250 one photographed at noon. Second, build the direct channel early — this market runs on repeat couples and word of mouth, and a direct-booking website with an email list converts one good October stay into a February and a June booking without paying commission three times. Third, sell midweek on purpose: remote-work messaging, Sunday–Thursday pricing, and fast wifi stated plainly (with the speed test screenshot) fill the nights everyone else writes off. Fourth, be straight about the practical stuff — cell coverage gaps, snow driveways, the last mile of dirt road — because surprises become reviews, and the guest who chose you anyway becomes a repeat. Fifth, check the permit math before you count on growth: in capped towns your permit is an appreciating asset, and keeping it compliant and renewed is worth more than any single season's revenue.
Permit caps and waitlists in the marquee towns mean you can own a house you're not allowed to rent — the single biggest trap for new buyers. Midweek softness and mud season drag annual occupancy, winters demand plowing and pipe-freeze vigilance, and the design bar keeps rising as new architect cabins enter every year. Cell and internet dead zones are real and must be managed, not hidden.
A wood-stove cabin on a dirt road rented to strangers is not what a standard homeowner's policy has in mind. You'll want a short-term-rental or landlord policy with solid liability limits, and underwriters here care about the specifics: wood-burning appliances, hot tubs, ponds and creeks, and winter vacancy all affect terms. Snow-load and pipe-freeze claims are the regional classics. Work with an agent who writes upstate rental properties and disclose everything — a denied claim costs more than the premium ever did.
Plan on three layers: New York State and local sales tax on short-term stays (applied statewide since March 2025), your county's occupancy tax — 4% in Ulster, with Greene, Delaware and Sullivan at their own rates — and ordinary income tax on the earnings. Platforms collect some of this in some counties, but the registration and remittance obligation is yours, especially on direct bookings. County-by-county details shift; confirm your exact stack with your accountant before your first season.
Most Catskills rental purchases are second homes or investment properties, so expect the usual: bigger down payments, reserves, and rate premiums over primary loans, with DSCR products available where the rental income story is strong. One local wrinkle — in permit-capped towns, lenders and appraisers increasingly ask whether the property can legally operate as an STR, so have the permit answer before you have the mortgage conversation. A lender familiar with upstate seasonal markets will price it all more sensibly.
There's no single Catskills rulebook. Four counties, dozens of towns and their villages each write their own, and the line that decides your permit can be a village boundary you can't see from the road. Think of it as three layers. The top layer is New York State: since March 1, 2025, state and local sales tax has applied to short-term stays priced at more than $2.00 per unit per day, and the booking platforms register as sales tax vendors and collect it on the stays they handle. The middle layer is the county occupancy tax, which runs at a different rate in each county. The bottom layer is the town or village permit, and that's where the caps, inspections and fees live. Get all three answers in writing, for the exact parcel, before you make an offer, because the listing sheet won't carry them.
Woodstock reset its permit fees in January 2025 on a 3-2 town board vote, and it now prices by who lives on site. Recent fee schedules put an in-home, owner-occupied rental at about $250 a year for the first bedroom plus $25 for each additional room, a separate owner-occupied unit such as a cottage or a room over the garage at about $350 plus $25 a room, and a whole house with no owner on site at about $450 plus $50 for each extra bedroom. A tax-based fee structure has been floated for 2026, so confirm the current figure with the town before you budget. On the Mountaintop, the first question is which office you answer to. The Town of Hunter adopted its short-term rental law in July 2023, requires a permit for every rental in the town and adds a fire and safety inspection on top of the application. The Village of Tannersville, inside the town, now runs its own permit under Local Law 3 of 2025, with its own portal, application and fee schedule. Addresses near the village line can fall on either side of it, so ask the Hunter building inspector which permit the parcel needs before you count on a single booked night.
The middle layer changes at every county line, and the platforms don't cover all of it. Airbnb's New York tax page lists the county occupancy taxes it collects here: 4% in Ulster on stays of 90 nights or fewer, and 5% in Sullivan and 2% in Delaware on stays of 31 nights or fewer, each charged on the listing price with cleaning fees included. It also collects state sales tax, which the same page lists at 7% to 8.875% of the listing price depending on where the home sits. Greene isn't on Airbnb's county list, and Greene County's own short-term rental page mentions only state sales tax, so ask the county treasurer and your town or village clerk whether a local occupancy tax applies before you set your rates. Greene has also opened a registry. Citing 2025 state bills that encourage counties to track short-term rentals, it asks every owner to register through its customer portal, and there's no fee to do it. Register before your first listing goes live, since a county that's counting rentals will notice the ones that skipped it.
Platform collection doesn't end your paperwork. Ulster County wants a Certificate of Authority within three days of starting business, displayed in the house, and a quarterly return due March 20, June 20, September 20 and December 20, filed even in a quarter when Airbnb or Vrbo remitted every dollar. It also wants records of each stay kept for three years. Skipping the certificate or a return is a misdemeanor carrying fines up to $1,000 and up to one year in jail, and late tax draws a 5% monthly penalty plus 1% monthly interest. At the state level, each platform owes you Form ST-155 within 90 days, its certificate that it collected the sales tax on the bookings it handled. Direct bookings change the picture. Unless a platform handles all your sales, or you rent your own place three days or fewer a year without one, you register with the state as a sales tax vendor and collect state, local and county tax on every stay your own website books. Build that into your booking flow before the first direct reservation arrives. None of this is tax advice for your situation, so have an accountant who files upstate rental returns set up your registrations and your filing calendar.
Guests see one mountain range. You're buying into one county's tax, one town's permit and one valley's guest, and those three decide the listing you'll be writing. Read the region from east to west. Woodstock sells culture and an easy drive, the Esopus valley sells creeks and trailheads, the Mountaintop sells snow, and Sullivan and Delaware sell water, acreage and quiet. The best purchase matches a house to the guest who's already searching for that valley, then gets the permit question settled before the closing date. It's the read Cavmir starts from when we market a home here, because the town decides the story long before the photos do.
Woodstock books on its name. Couples and two-couple groups come for the galleries on Tinker Street, a show at the Bearsville Theater, film festival weekend and the Overlook Mountain trail at the edge of town, and they want a short drive to dinner. That favors a cottage or a renovated farmhouse close to the village green over a bigger house deep in the woods, and the town's fee schedule favors owners who live on site, so run the numbers both ways before you decide to be an absentee owner. West of Woodstock, the Esopus valley wins hikers, swimmers and tubers: Phoenicia's main street, the creek through Mount Tremper, the Oliverea valley trailheads for Slide Mountain and Giant Ledge, and Belleayre near the Ulster and Delaware county line for winter. Here, creek frontage or a short walk to Phoenicia's diner and shops is the asset, and a hot tub with a creek view is the photo that sells the listing. These hamlets sit in the Town of Shandaken, where non-resident licenses are capped, so check the current count with the town clerk before you write an offer.
Greene County's Mountaintop is the ski market. Hunter Mountain fills winter Saturdays with groups from the city, and in summer and fall the same houses work for hikers headed to Kaaterskill Falls and North-South Lake and for the Oktoberfest crowd. The house that wins sleeps a group: several bedrooms, bunks for the kids, a mudroom or somewhere to dry boots, a hot tub and a driveway that gets plowed. Tannersville is the walkable village of the three, with restaurants on Main Street a short ride from the lifts, and Windham, a short drive north, draws families and longer ski weekends. The rule difference up here is jurisdiction. The Town of Hunter's 2023 permit law and its fire and safety inspection cover rentals in the town, and the Village of Tannersville has its own 2025 law, so ask which permit, or permits, the parcel needs. Ask the Windham town clerk what applies there before you close. And because Airbnb doesn't list a Greene County occupancy tax, ask the county about the tax line before you set rates.
Sullivan County's side of the mountains runs on water. Livingston Manor sits on the Willowemoc and Roscoe on the Beaverkill, the rivers American fly-fishing grew up on, and the anglers come in spring and fall, which helps fill weeks that sit quiet elsewhere in the region. Their partners come for the main streets, so a creekside two-bedroom with a porch, a mudroom for waders and an easy run into town is the property that fits. Both hamlets sit in the Town of Rockland, so ask its code enforcement office what a permit requires before you close. On the tax side, Airbnb collects Sullivan's 5% county room tax on stays of 31 nights or fewer. Farther west, Delaware County's towns and villages, Andes, Bovina, Delhi, Margaretville and Fleischmanns, trade the short drive for space: farmhouses on acreage, big barns, dark skies, and a guest who stays longer and cooks in. The county tax Airbnb collects there is 2% on stays of 31 nights or fewer, the lightest of the three county rates it collects in the region. Confirm the current figure with the county treasurer, because rates and platform agreements change.
The structural bet on the Catskills is simple: the mountains aren't moving and neither is New York City. Two hours' drive from twenty million people, with no airport dependency and a four-season calendar, is a demand foundation that survives recessions better than fly-to markets. The regulatory direction is clear — more towns adopting permits, more caps on non-owner-occupied rentals — and that's quietly good news for owners already inside the fence: capped supply plus growing demand is how rates rise. The design arms race will keep escalating, which means the gap between marketed and unmarketed properties widens every year. Expect midweek remote-work demand to keep growing, expect the foliage and ski windows to stay premium, and expect the permit itself to become one of the most valuable lines on your property's balance sheet. The owners who treat the cabin as a small brand — with real photography, a direct-booking site and a returning guest list — are the ones the next decade pays.
The Catskills are the most design-literate rental market on the East Coast, and that makes the work a pleasure. The guest here has taste and books with their eyes: one moody photograph of a wood stove through a picture window outsells three paragraphs of amenity copy. When we get a cabin with good bones — a real A-frame, a farmhouse with old floors, a deck over a creek — the job is honest: shoot it in the fog and the snow and the last light, give it a name, and let the mountains do the talking. No market rewards photography more directly, which means no market shows our work faster.
We also love the underdog calendar. Everyone fills the foliage weekends; the craft is in the rest. Selling a Tuesday in January to a remote worker who wants to write by the stove, or a mud-season week to a painter who wants the mountain to herself — that's positioning, not discounting, and it's the difference between a cabin that earns eight months a year and one that earns three. And the towns here have real texture to market: Woodstock's fifty years of arts identity, Phoenicia's creek-town main street, Livingston Manor's fly-fishing bars. A listing that knows its town reads like a local and books like one. We're in it for the owner who built something beautiful and is tired of watching uglier cabins outrank it.
A great property in The Catskills doesn't just want a listing — it wants a point of view, an audience, and a brand the city itself would recognise.
A few insider picks across Ulster, Greene and Sullivan counties — the specifics that make a cabin listing read like a local wrote it. Real places, no filler.
New York's most painted waterfall, and for good reason — go early on a weekday and you'll have the two-tier drop nearly to yourself. By 11 a.m. on a fall Saturday the trailhead is a parking problem. Tell guests both facts.
The hike passes the ruins of an abandoned mountain-house hotel on the way to a fire tower with the whole Hudson Valley below. Late light through the ruins is the most Catskills photograph there is.
The main street of America's oldest arts-colony town — galleries, record shops, the village green drum circle on Sundays. Guests staying anywhere in Ulster County will drive in; tell them where to park.
A 1962 roadside diner reborn as the region's unofficial clubhouse — chrome, neon, and skillets that show up on every Catskills weekend photo dump. Weekend waits are real; midweek it's all yours.
Summer here runs on creek swimming — the Esopus around Phoenicia and the famous Peekamoose Blue Hole (permit required in season). Point guests to the rules and the quieter spots; it's the amenity no cabin can build.
After the lifts close, the Belleayre area goes quiet while the waterfalls run their hardest of the year. Mud season is real, but late April hiking under full-throttle falls is the Catskills with nobody watching.
The Sullivan County side: fly-fishing water where American dry-fly fishing was born, the Catskill Fly Fishing Center, and a two-block main street with better food than towns ten times its size.
Every Catskills inquiry eventually asks the same two things: is there cell coverage, and can my car make the driveway? Answer both honestly in the listing — with the wifi speed test — and watch cancellations and bad reviews drop.
Guests who find a The Catskills rental on Airbnb search its name afterwards, and the page they should land on is the owner’s own site. Cavmir builds vacation rental websites of 40 to 125 pages in the owner’s brand. For a home that only lists on Airbnb, that is a website for your Airbnb: your name and domain, your photos, your area guides and your reviews, with a button that sends guests to the listing. For homes on Hostaway, Guesty or Hospitable it is a direct booking website: live availability and prices from the PMS, the whole stay priced before checkout, and the booking completed in the PMS. Both start from the same vacation rental website design, run the TrollBuster™ compliance scan before launch, and are yours at launch: domain, code, content and photos.
The guide pages of a The Catskills site can start with the picks on this page: Kaaterskill Falls, Overlook Mountain, Woodstock and Tinker Street, Woodstock. Each one is a search a guest makes before choosing a home, and each becomes a page that leads to the booking button.
Packages start at $1,475 for the Starter Website (40 pages, two to three weeks) and run to $3,732 for Full with Direct Booking (125 pages, booking synced with your PMS); the current prices are on the pricing page.
A few composite engagements drawn from how Cavmir typically works in the Catskills. The details are illustrative and consistent with the market, not pulled from a single named client.
A striking new-build A-frame with a ski-season location was photographed in flat summer daylight and priced against ordinary houses — its design premium invisible, its winter calendar soft outside holiday weeks.
Cavmir reshot the cabin in the conditions guests actually buy — snowfall, dusk, the stove lit — gave it a name and a consistent identity across channels, split winter and summer pricing properly, and pointed paid social at the city ski crowd from December through February.
Winter weekends began booking ahead at a clear premium over comparable houses, midweek ski stays appeared where there had been none, and the cabin's photography started doing the selling its architecture always deserved.
A renovated farmhouse with a full non-owner-occupied permit — a scarce asset in a capped town — was listed with phone photos and generic copy, earning like an unpermitted spare room while the permit's value sat unused.
Cavmir positioned the house around what the permit made possible: a full brand, a direct-booking website, professional photography through the seasons, and copy anchored in Woodstock's arts identity rather than boilerplate cabin language.
The house moved decisively upmarket in rate, repeat guests began booking direct for return stays, and the owner came to treat the permit-plus-brand combination as the appreciating asset it is.
A modest two-bedroom on good water had a natural audience — fly-fishing travelers and quiet-weekend couples — but a listing that never mentioned the river, the hatch calendar or the town, so it competed as generic inventory.
Cavmir rebuilt the positioning around the water: photography from the bank at first light, copy written for anglers and their patient partners, a simple direct-booking site, and outreach into the fishing-travel channels the big platforms don't reach.
Spring and fall — previously the dead zones — became the strongest windows on the calendar, guests began arriving pre-sold on the location, and the cabin found the specific audience it had been invisible to.
Demand in Catskills peaks around July, August and October and runs quietest around March, April and November. Here is how the year actually books — and what to do about each stretch of the calendar.
The Catskills run two real peaks: July and August, when city families settle in for lake weeks and swimming holes, and October, when foliage turns every winding road into a reason to book. Peak-week guests decide off photography more than price, so the listings that show a specific place at its best season take the weekend before anyone else is even considered.
February earns its keep through Hunter, Windham and Belleayre ski weekends plus Presidents' week, and June and September carry strong weekend demand with soft midweeks. The shoulder play here is the midweek escape: two-night stays for couples and remote workers who want the cabin without the Saturday price, plus early-bird foliage bookers in September.
Mud season is real. Late March through April and most of November are the honest lulls, when trails are wet and the ski lifts have stopped. Use them for longer stays at friendlier rates, photography refreshes while the light is dramatic, and getting your summer calendar and pricing dialed before Memorial Day arrives.
October Saturdays and Presidents' week fill months ahead, and summer lake weeks lock in through spring. The rest of the calendar moves on a short fuse, with couples booking a week or two out, sometimes the same Thursday. Practically, that means your foliage and holiday pricing should be set by late summer while the listing stays sharp enough to win the impulse weekend all year.
Weekends rule: two and three nights, Friday to Sunday, most of the year. Summer stretches into week-long family stays, and shoulder months add midweek couples and month-plus remote workers who treat the mountains as a second office.
The Catskills winner is the design-forward cabin or A-frame with a hot tub under the trees, a firepit, and interiors that photograph like a magazine but live like a home. Woodstock, Phoenicia, Tannersville and the Route 28 corridor all reward character over square footage. A generic house competes on price; a cabin with a point of view books its whole season off twenty good photos.
Lead with the thing city guests are actually buying: the feeling of the place. That means photography shot in fall and winter, not just July, a listing title built around what people search — cabin, hot tub, fireplace, dog friendly — and pricing that treats October Saturdays and holiday weeks as the events they are. From there, a Google Business Profile and a simple direct-booking site capture the repeat guests this market generates naturally. That is the stack Cavmir builds for Catskills owners, and it compounds because weekenders come back.
July and August for summer stays, and late September through mid October for foliage, which is the fiercest demand of the year. February ski weekends and Presidents' week form a third, smaller peak. Mud season in late March and April, plus November, are the quiet stretches.
Foliage Saturdays and Presidents' week go months out, and summer lake weeks fill through the spring. Ordinary weekends move much faster, often a week or two ahead, and couples will book a Thursday for the same weekend when the listing looks right. Keep marquee dates priced early and stay ready for the short-fuse crowd all year.
New York City, overwhelmingly, plus North Jersey, Philadelphia, Albany and Connecticut. It is a two-to-three-hour drive market, which makes geo-targeted ads at the city the efficient move. The small fly-in segment connects through the New York airports and drives up like everyone else.
A hot tub is the single biggest booking lever in this market, followed closely by a firepit and a real fireplace or wood stove. Pet-friendliness widens your audience dramatically because the weekend crowd travels with dogs, and fast wifi with a workspace captures the midweek remote workers who fill shoulder months.
Run your Airbnb, Vrbo, or website through Cavmir's free grader. It checks the things that decide whether guests book in the Catskills — photos, listing copy, page speed, local search — and shows you where bookings leak. Takes about a minute, and there's no sales call attached.
If the report says your booking engine is the weak link, that's fixable: a direct-booking website of your own means repeat guests stop paying platform fees to come back to you. That's the work Cavmir does — see Airbnb website design in the Catskills.
Send us the listing and we'll tell you what we'd change. Not a pitch deck — a straight read on your photos, your title, your rates against the The Catskills comp set, and whether a direct-booking site would pay for itself.
You'll hear back from a person, usually inside one business day. If we don't think we can move your numbers, we'll say so. Cavmir is a short-term rental marketing agency — we position and market properties, we don't manage them.
Talk to Cavmir today. We'll show you exactly what your The Catskills property is leaving on the table — and how fast we can change that.
Book a Free Strategy CallPhotography via Wikimedia Commons (images resized and cropped): View of the intersection of Esopus and Stony Clove Creeks with a bridge part of state route 28 and Mount Romer in the background 03 by Magpieturtle (CC BY 4.0) · Central Catskills from Twin south summit by The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Balsam Lake Mountain fire tower by Daniel Case (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Catskills across the Hudson by Pfoshea (CC BY-SA 4.0).