Buying a short-term rental is a different search than buying a home — you are underwriting income, not just a floor plan. These are the agents, marketplaces, and data tools investors use to find and vet STR property.
This mixes three models on purpose, because a real buying process usually uses all of them: a dedicated STR brokerage, agent-matching networks, and the data platforms you underwrite with. We have labeled each so you know what you are getting — a couple help you buy, and a couple are research tools, not agents.
The largest short-term-rental-specific brokerage in the US, pairing investors with agents who only sell vacation rentals.
Cavmir take: An agent network under eXp, so coverage and quality depend on your market — excellent in their core vacation markets, thinner outside them.
Visit The Short-Term Shop →A short-term-rental brokerage and data platform that matches investors with vetted STR-savvy buyer's agents in their target market, for free.
Cavmir take: A matching layer over a partner-agent network, not one in-house team — so vet the specific agent Chalet pairs you with.
Visit Chalet →A nationwide Airbnb-investment marketplace and data platform that helps investors find, analyze, and finance short-term rentals.
Cavmir take: A data-and-marketplace platform first; the agent help is a referral layer, and its projections are estimates — verify comps independently before you buy.
Visit Rabbu →The best-known short-term-rental data platform, providing the occupancy, rate, and revenue estimates investors use to underwrite deals.
Cavmir take: A data and analytics tool, not a brokerage — it does not sell property. Use it to research and underwrite, then bring an agent from elsewhere on this list.
Visit AirDNA →A high-volume Seattle-area brokerage with a dedicated STR-investor buyer's-agent practice for income-property purchases.
Cavmir take: Regional — Seattle and the Eastside only, not national. A strong pick if you are buying in Puget Sound, not relevant elsewhere.
Visit RexMont Real Estate →Cavmir is a marketing agency, not a real-estate brokerage, and this is not investment or real-estate advice. Revenue projections from any data tool are estimates — verify comps and local short-term-rental rules independently before you buy.
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