Sky High Cabins Review

Sky High Cabins is a full-service and co-hosting vacation rental manager based in Big Bear Lake, California, founded and run by Leanne Flashberg — a detail we could confirm directly through both the company's own About page and its Better Business Bureau profile, which lists her as the business's owner. That kind of single, named accountability is unusual to find this clearly documented among the small operators we've reviewed.

We verified the company's BBB standing directly: an A+ rating, not BBB-accredited, with a business start date of August 18, 2020. Sky High's own About page describes "7+ years of operation" and "7+ years of Airbnb Superhost status" — based on the BBB's registration date, that's closer to just under six years as of this review. It's a modest gap, and probably just marketing rounding rather than anything more concerning, but it's the kind of small inconsistency worth knowing about before you take every number on a company's own page at face value.

How it works for owners

Sky High Cabins started, per its own account, as a small hands-on operation and has grown through word-of-mouth into a footprint that now spans Big Bear Lake, Big Bear City, Sugarloaf, Lake Arrowhead, and Twenty Nine Palms/Joshua Tree, with additional listings in Florida and North Carolina — a wide geographic spread for what is still, at its core, an owner-led small business. Services include full vacation-rental management as well as a lighter co-hosting tier, in-person guest check-in, a 24/7 keyless-access-code service, professional housekeeping, and guest concierge touches like restaurant and activity recommendations and private-chef referrals. Property staging and photography consultation are also offered, which matters in a visually-driven market like Big Bear cabin rentals.

The company holds multiple consecutive years of Airbnb Superhost status and has been named an Airbnb Ambassador, alongside Premier Host recognition on VRBO/Expedia. Its own materials also describe media coverage and partnerships with booking channels like Hopper and Marriott Homes & Villas — real distribution beyond Airbnb alone, though we're citing that as the company's own account of its press history rather than something we independently confirmed article-by-article.

Where the transparency gap is

The management fee is never quantified. The site's language — "low fee, no hidden charges" — is a positioning statement, not a number, and mirrors the gap we find across nearly every operator in this category regardless of size. There's also no current total portfolio count: the site showcases around 20 featured properties, but doesn't state how many homes are actually under management today. And because the business is built so visibly around one owner working seven days a week, it's fair for a prospective owner to ask directly what continuity looks like if Leanne Flashberg is unavailable — a real question for any single-owner-led operation, not a knock on this one specifically.

How it compares to our top pick

For an owner who wants a real, named, hands-on operator in the Big Bear area (or one of Sky High's satellite markets) and values direct access to the person actually running the business, Sky High Cabins' verified track record is a legitimate selling point. What it doesn't offer is a fee you can compare before reaching out, or the redundancy of a larger team.

Our top-ranked pick, One Fine BnB, pairs upfront pricing clarity with a larger multi-market operation. See how the rest of the field compares in our full best Airbnb management companies ranking.

Bottom line

Sky High Cabins is a verifiably real, BBB-rated, owner-led Big Bear specialist with a wider footprint than its size would suggest. Ask directly for the actual management-fee percentage and current property count, and ask what backup coverage looks like — the personal, hands-on pitch is genuine, but it comes with the trade-offs of a small team.