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Running a furnished short-term rental is a hospitality business, not a passive investment — guest turnovers, dynamic pricing, cleaning, reviews, and a growing stack of local permit rules all land on you. Extra Property Management handles short-term rental management for owners across New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania: we list the property, price it, turn it over between guests, and keep it compliant with the town's rules. We are a licensed, Trenton-based team with over 330 five-star Google reviews — and we will tell you honestly whether your property is a strong Airbnb candidate or better run as a long-term rental.
We manage short-term and furnished rentals throughout our service area: Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Burlington, Hunterdon, and western Monmouth Counties in New Jersey, plus Bucks County in Pennsylvania.
Full-service residential, HOA & commercial management across Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Burlington, Hunterdon & western Monmouth NJ + Bucks County PA.
A short-term rental only makes money when it is booked, spotless, and legal — and staying all three at once is a daily job. Here is exactly what we take off your plate.
We build and optimize the listing on Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com — professional photos, an accurate description, house rules, and the amenities guests filter for. A furnished rental lives and dies on its first five photos and its review score, so we set it up to convert lookers into booked nights from day one.
Nightly rates are not set-and-forget. We adjust pricing to weekday and weekend demand, local events, and seasonality, and manage minimum-stay rules to protect your margin and your neighbors. We also sync the calendar across every platform so you never take a double booking — the mistake that produces a one-star review that follows a listing for a year.
We handle inquiries, bookings, check-in instructions, and the midnight "the code isn't working" messages so you don't have to. Every guest is vetted before arrival, house rules are set clearly, and we manage reviews on both sides — because a fast, professional response earns the Superhost-level rating that keeps a listing near the top of search.
Between every stay we coordinate hotel-standard cleaning, fresh linens and towels, and restocking of the consumables guests expect. Our vetted local cleaners turn the unit over on a tight schedule, and we run a condition check each time so damage is caught, documented, and charged to the right guest — not absorbed by you.
This is where most self-managed hosts get caught. We check the town's short-term-rental ordinance, help register for any required permit, and handle New Jersey's occupancy-tax obligations — the state sales and occupancy tax on stays under 90 days — plus any local fee. If a property does not qualify to operate short-term, we tell you before you list, not after a code-enforcement letter arrives.
Central New Jersey is not a beach or a national park, so the short-term market here is real but selective. It works best for furnished properties near genuine demand: relocation and corporate stays around the Route 1 pharma-and-tech corridor, visiting scholars and event guests near Princeton, medical travelers near the major hospital systems, and the walkable river towns of Lambertville and New Hope–Yardley on the Bucks County side. It also fits owners in transition — a home you are not ready to sell, or a between-tenants gap you want to monetize as a mid-term furnished rental. It is a poorer fit where the town bans or heavily restricts short stays, where an HOA prohibits transient rentals, or where the numbers only pencil out on a few peak weekends. We run the honest comparison, and if a steady long-term lease nets you more with less risk, we say so.
Short-term management is priced differently from a long-term lease because the workload is different — there is a turnover, a cleaning, and a guest conversation every few nights instead of every few years. Here is the honest shape of it.
A short-term fee is a larger percentage than a long-term one, but it is a percentage of a higher nightly rate and it includes work a long-term manager never touches — guest support, dynamic pricing, and turnover coordination. Cleaning fees are typically passed to the guest, and we lay out setup costs before your first booking. The real question is never the fee alone; it is the net after occupancy, cleaning, tax, and vacancy — which is exactly what our free analysis models, side by side with the long-term number. Ask about our management fees and how short-term handling fits your property.
Plenty of national "Airbnb co-hosting" apps will list your property and route guest chats to a call center that has never seen the town. We are the opposite: a licensed New Jersey and Pennsylvania property manager with a real Trenton office, over 330 five-star Google reviews, and local cleaners and handymen who actually show up between guests. Because we manage long-term rentals too, we can give you the one thing a pure short-term app cannot — a straight answer about which strategy makes you more money on your specific property. We know which towns permit short stays and which quietly ban them, and we treat your listing like the hospitality business it is.
The whole experience was smooth, professional, and stress-free. The team was responsive and helpful every step of the way.
I had a few properties that became too much to handle on my own. They did an amazing job managing everything and taking care of my tenants with respect.
A reputable company with efficient services and dedicated staff. It was a positive experience from start to finish.
Sometimes. It works best for furnished properties near real demand — corporate and relocation stays on the Route 1 corridor, visiting scholars near Princeton, medical travelers near the major hospitals, and the walkable river towns near New Hope. Elsewhere, a steady long-term lease often nets more with far less work. We model both before recommending one.
It depends entirely on the town. New Jersey has no single statewide short-term-rental license, but many municipalities require their own permit, registration, or inspection — and some restrict or ban short stays outright. We check your specific town's ordinance before you list and handle any required registration, so you never operate out of compliance.
New Jersey applies state sales tax and the occupancy fee to transient stays of fewer than 90 consecutive days, and some towns add a local occupancy tax. Platforms like Airbnb collect some of this automatically, but not always all of it. We help make sure the right tax is collected and remitted so the obligation is handled correctly.
Short-term management typically runs 20–30% of booking revenue, versus about 8–10% for a long-term lease, because it includes guest support, dynamic pricing, and turnover coordination that a long-term manager never handles. Cleaning fees are usually passed to the guest. We lay out every cost before your first booking — no hidden line items.
Yes, and that flexibility is a real advantage of using one full-service manager. If the short-term numbers soften, the town tightens its rules, or you simply want steadier income, we can transition the property to a long-term tenant — screening, lease, and rent collection included — without you changing companies or starting over.
We manage furnished and short-term rentals throughout our full service area: Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Burlington, Hunterdon, and western Monmouth Counties in New Jersey, plus Bucks County in Pennsylvania. Because rules vary sharply by town, working with a manager who knows each local ordinance keeps your listing legal.
Thinking about listing on Airbnb, or not sure whether short-term or long-term makes you more? Tell us about your property and we'll send a no-obligation analysis: a realistic short-term and long-term income comparison, our fee, and what we'd do first. Call 609-800-2060 or use the form.
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Short-term and furnished-rental management is available throughout every county we manage, in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania — and we know which towns in each one actually permit it.
Available throughout Mercer County — furnished stays around Princeton and the Trenton hospital systems.
Available throughout Middlesex County — corporate and relocation stays along the Route 1 corridor.
Available throughout Burlington County — river-corridor and Route 130 furnished rentals.
Available throughout western Monmouth County — Freehold, Englishtown, and the Route 9 belt.
Available throughout Somerset County — Somerville, Hillsborough, and Manville.
Available throughout Hunterdon County — the Lambertville and Delaware-river towns lead the demand.
Available throughout Bucks County — the New Hope, Yardley, and river-town short-term market.
Not sure short-term is right for your property? Compare it against a steady long-term lease with our full landlord services, see how we vet every guest and tenant through tenant screening, and how disciplined rent collection keeps a long-term switch effortless. Return to our Trenton property management home to see the complete service area across New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.