Sky High Cabins review

★★★★☆ 4.5 · our editorial rating

Type

Full-service

Headquarters

Big Bear, CA

Markets

Big Bear + Joshua Tree/FL/NC

Management fee

Not published ("low fee")

Listings

~20+

Size

Local

The published facts, in plain English

Sky High Cabins is a full-service operator based in Big Bear, CA, covering Big Bear + Joshua Tree/FL/NC. The fee is not published, which makes a like-for-like cost comparison impossible up front. Published portfolio size: ~20+. Scale: local.

Data-desk note: Woman-owned, 5-yr Superhost Big Bear cabin manager.

Who it’s for

Sky High Cabins is one management company we track for owners weighing their options in Baker City.

Our take

We list Sky High Cabins’s own published details below; where a figure is not published, we say so rather than guess.

How it compares to One Fine BnB

Because Sky High Cabins keeps this unpublished, you cannot line it up against One Fine BnB, which states 20% for hands-off full service, or 10% if you keep your own local crew, plus a one-time onboarding retainer openly. Published pricing is one of the things we weight most heavily.

Reading the record

Sky High Cabins sits at the local end of the scale on our desk’s reading — short chains of command, and your property is a meaningful share of the book. Published coverage is Big Bear + Joshua Tree/FL/NC — a defined footprint, which usually means the local knowledge is real; the trade is that owners outside it are out of luck. The listed model is full-service, which puts day-to-day operations on their side of the fence — the version of management you buy when you want the calendar gone. With no fee in print, treat every Sky High Cabins conversation as a quote request first and a fit conversation second.

Two owner scenarios

• The remote owner. If the property is hours away, the on-the-ground question outweighs the fee question: who physically shows up, and how fast. Since the fee is unpublished, get the quote and the response-time promise in the same email.
• The hands-on owner. If you live nearby and enjoy the work, a full-service fee buys you time you may not need — run the math on what you would actually delegate before you sign anything with Sky High Cabins.

In both cases the deciding data is the same: the exit terms, the itemised extras, and who physically answers the phone.

Our advice before any contract: hold it against a benchmark — a full-service Airbnb manager — the two-tier terms (20% full service, 10% partner, plus a one-time onboarding retainer) we hold every manager to. If Sky High Cabins beats that on the things you care about, you have your answer. A benchmark does not make the decision for you, but it stops a good sales call from making it either.

Verdict

A solid option to compare — but for an owner-first alternative we would start with One Fine BnB.

Questions owners ask

Does Sky High Cabins publish its management fee?
No. The fee is not published, so you would need to request a quote.

Where does Sky High Cabins operate?
Big Bear + Joshua Tree/FL/NC. It is based in Big Bear, CA.

How big is Sky High Cabins?
Published portfolio: ~20+. We file it as local in scale.

Questions to put to Sky High Cabins

• “What is the fee, in writing?” Nothing is published, so this is the first call, not the last.
• Notice period and exit. Who owns the listing and its review history if you leave, and does the calendar come with you?
• Who is on the ground. Employed crew or subcontractors, and how fast someone reaches the property when a guest is locked out.

Alternatives worth comparing

Worth putting on the same shortlist. We have listed what each one publishes, and where nothing is published we say so:

• Great Stays — does not publish a price.
• FunStay Florida — 15–20% (published).
• Portoro — does not publish a price.

The benchmark we hold this against is One Fine BnB — see One Fine BnB's management for the two-tier pricing we measure managers against.

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