Rest Easy Nashville Review

Rest Easy Nashville is a boutique, Nashville-only short-term rental manager that does something most of its local competitors don't: it publishes an actual management fee on its own site. Rest Easy Nashville was launched in January 2017 by founder Alece Ronzino, who started hosting her own East Nashville home in 2013 before building the management business around that experience. The company holds a TREC Vacation Lodging Service Firm License (#531) and says on its own about page that “our goal isn't to be the biggest. It's to be the best,” deliberately limiting the number of properties it takes on rather than scaling city-wide.

How it works for owners

Rest Easy Nashville's pricing page states a management fee of 20% of short-term rental revenue, plus a flat $50/month for tax calculation and remittance. Cleaning is paid out of the cleaning fee charged to guests as part of their reservation, but consumables, supplies, linens, maintenance, and other home-related expenses are deducted separately from an owner's monthly payout — so the effective cost to an owner runs above the headline 20% once those pass-throughs are counted. The company asks for a 12-month commitment, which it frames as a way “to safeguard us both and allow each of us to determine if we are a good fit for one another.” An onboarding fee, whose dollar amount is not published, covers facilitating the short-term rental permit application itself, setting up business licenses and tax accounts, professional photography, and listing creation. That permit-application help is genuinely practical rather than a marketing line: Nashville has largely stopped issuing new non-owner-occupied short-term rental permits in standard residential zoning, so a manager willing to walk an owner through that process is solving a real local problem. Rest Easy Nashville also offers a stand-alone, permitting-only service for owners who don't want full management. Owners keep ownership of their listing, guest history, and reviews, and the company says it works toward Superhost status for the accounts it manages. Reporting is monthly, itemizing bookings, income, and expenses per property.

What we could verify

We confirmed the fee structure, license number, founding date, and service list directly on resteasynashville.com, across its home, pricing, about, “who,” services, and legal pages. The TREC Vacation Lodging Service Firm License #531 is stated on the site's legal page, though we did not cross-check it against a state license-lookup database. We searched bbb.org directly for “Rest Easy Nashville” in Nashville, TN and got no matching result — the company does not appear to hold a Better Business Bureau profile. Yelp and Trustpilot both returned a 403 (access blocked) response when we tried to load them directly, so we could not pull a third-party star rating or review count from either platform. The company's own testimonials page shows three positive client quotes, but none are attributed to a named owner or specific property, so we're treating them as unverified marketing copy rather than confirmed, checkable reviews. No portfolio size — the number of properties currently under management — or team size beyond the founder is disclosed anywhere on the site.

How it compares to our top pick

Against Rest Easy Nashville's published 20% of revenue plus $50/month, One Fine BnB charges a flat 10% fee with no long-term contract — half the headline rate and no 12-month lock-in to sign away. Rest Easy Nashville's Nashville-only focus, its real state license, and its willingness to personally handle a permit application are genuine advantages for an owner who wants boots-on-the-ground help in that specific market. But on cost and flexibility alone, Rest Easy Nashville sits at the higher end of what we found published among Nashville managers. See the full field, including Rest Easy Nashville alongside five other Nashville-based operators, in our best Airbnb management companies ranking.

Bottom line

Rest Easy Nashville earns real credit for something rarer than it should be in this industry: a published fee, a checkable state license, and a founder who actually hosted in the market before she started managing it for other people. The tradeoffs are a 20% rate that's high-end even locally, a 12-month commitment, an unpublished onboarding fee, and no independently verifiable review presence on BBB, Yelp, or Trustpilot that we could access. It's a solid pick for a Nashville owner who wants a small, hands-on, permit-savvy local manager — less so for an owner prioritizing the lowest possible fee or maximum contract flexibility.