FunStay Florida Review
A Kissimmee, FL owner-operator built around Disney-corridor resort communities, publishing a 15–20% fee range that a couple of its own pages describe in contradictory terms.
Pros
- Publishes an actual fee range on multiple pages — 15–20% of gross rental revenue — rather than gating pricing entirely behind a "contact us" form
- No setup fees and no long-term contract, stated consistently across its property-management, Orlando, and luxury pages
- Owner-operator credibility: founder Mike Chen personally owns and manages 10+ short-term rentals in the Orlando area on top of running the management business
- Deep concentration in Disney-corridor resort communities — ChampionsGate, Reunion Resort, Windsor Hills, Paradise Palms, Vista Cay, and more than a dozen others — plus Miami and Panama City Beach
- Bundles Florida-specific compliance into the fee: DBPR licensing, county Business Tax Receipt, sales tax, and tourist development tax filings
- Optional co-hosting tier for owners who want à la carte services (cleaning, pricing, guest messaging) instead of full management
Cons
- The site is inconsistent about whether pricing is a flat rate or a range: the luxury-Orlando page promises "flat-rate pricing… No sliding scale," while the services page, the Orlando page, and the company's own fees blog post all publish it as a 15–20% range — and no page states which figure applies to a specific property or market
- Portfolio size isn't pinned down: the About page describes only "a growing portfolio of homes," while a company blog post elsewhere on the same site claims Mike Chen is "managing around 100 vacation rentals"
- Experience claims don't reconcile across the homepage: "20 years of management and investment experience," "the last 5 years" focused on short-term rentals specifically, a "10+ years of hosting experience" badge, and a claim that Chen "began his journey in 2017" are four different timelines
- No Better Business Bureau profile exists under "FunStay," "FunStay Florida," or "FunStay Homes" — we searched BBB's own directory directly and it returned zero matches
- Yelp and Trustpilot both blocked automated access during our review, so the five owner testimonials published on FunStay's own site are the only performance data available — self-reported, not independently confirmed
FunStay Florida (also doing business as FunStay Homes) is a full-service Airbnb and vacation-rental manager based in Kissimmee, FL, co-founded and run by Mike Chen, a licensed Florida Realtor with La Rosa Realty who also personally owns and manages 10+ short-term rentals in the Orlando area. The company's core territory is the Orlando/Disney resort corridor — Kissimmee, Orlando, and Davenport — with an additional footprint in Miami and Panama City Beach. Its site names more than a dozen specific resort communities it serves, including ChampionsGate, Reunion Resort, Windsor Hills, Paradise Palms, and Vista Cay — established short-term-rental resort developments near Walt Disney World.
How it works for owners
FunStay's services page publishes a full-service management fee of 15–20% of gross rental revenue, and its property-management page states plainly: "No setup fees. No long-term contracts. Ever." The fee is meant to cover listing optimization and SEO, professional photography, multi-platform distribution (Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals), dynamic pricing, 24/7 guest communication and booking management, professional turnover cleaning with hotel-grade linens, and maintenance coordination — pool service, pest control, lawn care, HVAC, and emergency repairs through a local vendor network. The company also handles Florida-specific compliance as part of the package: DBPR (Department of Business and Professional Regulation) licensing, county Business Tax Receipts, sales tax, and tourist development tax filings, a genuinely useful service given how much short-term-rental licensing requirements vary county to county in Florida. Owners who don't want full management can instead buy a co-hosting tier that covers only specific services — cleaning, pricing, or guest communication — rather than handing over the whole operation.
FunStay's About page describes the business as a "small, experienced, Orlando-based team" rather than a call-center operation, and its testimonials page features five named owners citing specific revenue gains after switching — Jeffrey Tsou cites a 30% income increase, Phil C. cites 40%, and Irene Neri-Arboleda cites "almost 50%." These are FunStay's own published owner quotes, not figures we were able to verify independently.
What we could verify
The 15–20% fee range checks out across several independent pages — the services page, the Orlando property-management page, and a company blog post comparing management fees all state it the same way. But FunStay's own luxury-Orlando page describes pricing differently, promising "transparent flat-rate pricing… No sliding scale, no hidden costs." The fees blog post only partly resolves the contradiction, calling the rate "flat-rate" but also "location-based" — meaning it's fixed once set, but which number within the 15–20% band applies to a given property or market isn't published anywhere on the site.
Company size is reported inconsistently, too. The About page won't commit to a managed-property count, citing only "a growing portfolio of homes," while a separate company blog post elsewhere on the same site states Chen is "managing around 100 vacation rentals across Orlando, Kissimmee, and Davenport" with "more than 2,600 guest reviews." Tenure claims follow the same pattern: FunStay's homepage cites "20 years of management and investment experience," and separately that "the last 5 years have been focused on managing and investing in short-term rental properties," alongside a "10+ years of hosting experience" badge and a claim that Chen "began his journey in 2017" — four different timeframes on the same site that don't fully square with each other.
On the independent-verification side, we searched the Better Business Bureau directly for "FunStay," "FunStay Florida," and "FunStay Homes" and found no matching business profile at all. A Yelp search surfaces a listing titled "Fun Stay Homes" at 2367 Silver Palm Dr, Kissimmee — a different address than the 1101 Miranda Lane address on FunStay's own contact page — but yelp.com itself blocked our automated access (HTTP 403), so we couldn't open the listing to confirm a rating or read the reviews. Trustpilot returned no dedicated business profile for funstayflorida.com, and a direct URL lookup was also blocked. That leaves the five testimonials on FunStay's own site as the only performance data available for this review.
How it compares to our top pick
FunStay Florida's real strength is that Mike Chen is an owner-operator with his own portfolio in the same Disney-corridor resort communities he manages for clients, and the company does publish an actual fee range instead of hiding behind a pure "contact us" form. What it lacks is one consistent published rate and an independently checkable track record. Our top-ranked pick, One Fine BnB, pairs that same owner-first approach with transparent terms that don't require taking a single company's self-reported numbers at face value. See how FunStay Florida stacks up against the rest of the field in our full best Airbnb management companies ranking.
Bottom line
FunStay Florida is a real, active, owner-operated manager with genuine Disney-corridor resort depth and a published 15–20% fee — better pricing transparency than plenty of local competitors offer. Before signing, get a written, property-specific rate quote (the site itself can't decide whether the fee is a flat number or a range), ask directly for a current managed-property count, and don't expect the Better Business Bureau or Yelp to back up the testimonials on FunStay's own site — neither could be independently confirmed during our research.