Stay Awhile Cohosting Review
A Portland, Oregon husband-and-wife co-host that publishes its full pricing menu online (rare in this segment) but bundles a mandatory $150/month laundry fee into its main package.
Pros
- Publishes a full, itemized pricing menu across every service it sells (Consulting, Superhost Support, Premium Cohosting, and both one-time setup packages) rather than gating pricing behind a "request a quote" form like most single-market co-hosts we've reviewed
- Offers genuine tiered flexibility: owners can buy full-service management (Premium Cohosting), a lighter coaching-plus-one-service option (Consulting), or pricing and coaching support only (Superhost Support), depending on how hands-on they want to stay
- The 20% Premium Cohosting fee is explicitly defined as calculated on net revenue after taxes and fees are deducted, rather than left ambiguous
- One-time setup costs ($500 marketing package, $700 staging/furnishing package) can be deducted from the owner's first month of revenue instead of billed upfront
- Founders bring named, relevant, checkable backgrounds: Josh Burgeson is a licensed Oregon real estate broker, and the couple say they ran their own Airbnb to 200+ five-star Superhost reviews before opening the business to other owners
Cons
- The $150/month laundry subscription inside the Premium Cohosting tier is presented as part of the package, not as an optional add-on, regardless of an owner's own linen arrangements
- Single-market operator: Portland, Oregon only, with no published fallback for owners elsewhere
- No exact founding date or year is published anywhere on the company's own site; the About Us page describes its multi-year origin story only in general terms
- We found no Better Business Bureau or Yelp business profile under this company's name to independently check complaint history or guest-review volume; the "Stay Portland" listing that surfaces in a BBB search is a separate, unrelated Portland business
- No current portfolio size (number of managed properties) or team headcount is disclosed; a footer stat block on the About Us page ("58 team members," "123 years of combined experience") is inconsistent with the founders' own two-person origin story and reads like unedited template placeholder text
Stay Awhile Cohosting is a husband-and-wife co-hosting business serving short-term rental owners in Portland, Oregon. Founded and run by Josh and Carlie Burgeson, the company positions itself as a hands-on, family-operated alternative to national property-management brands, handling what its site describes as the full scope of running a vacation rental: listing management, guest communication, cleaning, and restocking. Per our ranking research, it's a single-market co-host with no branches or franchise partners outside the Portland metro.
How it works for owners
The company's main offering, Premium Cohosting, covers daily/dynamic pricing across synced Airbnb and VRBO calendars, 24/7 guest communication, professional cleaning, laundry and amenity restocking, and monthly financial reporting. What's unusual for a business this size is that Stay Awhile also sells two lighter tiers for owners who don't want to hand over full control: a $200/month "Superhost Support" option built around pricing analysis, multi-channel management, and coaching calls for owners running their own day-to-day operations, and a $125/month "Consulting" tier covering marketing refreshes, listing edits, and SEO, plus a choice of one additional service (pricing management, guest communication, or unit turnover/maintenance). It also sells two one-time setup packages, a $500 marketing package (photography, digital guestbook, listing setup, permit guidance, SEO strategy) and a $700 staging/furnishing package, both of which, per its services page, can be deducted from an owner's first month of revenue rather than billed upfront.
The founders' own account, published on the company's About Us page, is that they started the business after struggling with Portland housing costs: with a baby on the way, they subleased their own rental home, ran it as an Airbnb at a discounted rent, and say they built it to 200+ five-star reviews on their personal Superhost profile over three years before opening the business to other owners. Josh Burgeson is described as a licensed Oregon real estate broker; Carlie's background is in social services and hospitality, including prior bed-and-breakfast experience. We're presenting this as the company's own account of its history, not an independently audited biography.
What we could verify
The pricing itself checks out: every figure above is published, in writing, on the company's own site, which is a genuinely uncommon level of transparency among the single-market co-hosts we've reviewed in this segment. Where it's less clean is the $150/month laundry line inside the Premium Cohosting tier: the site presents it as part of the package rather than as an optional add-on, so an owner considering full-service management should expect to pay it regardless of their own linen arrangements.
We could not independently verify an exact founding date. The company's own site describes a multi-year timeline (three years running their own listing before launching the business) without giving calendar years for either milestone. We searched the Better Business Bureau for a Stay Awhile Cohosting profile and found none; the only Portland short-term-rental listing under a similar name, "Stay Portland" (DBA 164 Investments LLC), is a separate, unrelated business with its own website and a business-start date of August 2025, not this company. We also found no dedicated Yelp business profile for Stay Awhile Cohosting. That means the "200+ five-star reviews" figure the founders cite is self-reported and tied to their own former listing, not a third-party-audited rating of the co-hosting business itself. Separately, a footer on the company's About Us page displays statistics reading "73 projects," "58 team members," and "123 years of combined experience," numbers that don't square with the founders' own story of a two-person family operation, and that we treat as leftover website-template placeholder text rather than a verified fact about the company's size.
How it compares to our top pick
For a Portland owner who wants to see exact numbers before ever filling out a contact form, Stay Awhile Cohosting's published menu is a real point in its favor: most local co-hosts we've reviewed keep pricing behind a "request a quote" form. The tradeoffs are the bundled laundry fee, a single-market footprint, and a public track record that, beyond the company's own site, we couldn't independently confirm.
Our top-ranked pick, One Fine BnB, pairs that same kind of upfront pricing clarity with a multi-market footprint rather than a single city. See how the rest of the field compares in our full best Airbnb management companies ranking.
Bottom line
Stay Awhile Cohosting is a small, transparently priced, family-run Portland co-host, a rarer combination in this segment than it should be. Before signing, get written confirmation of what the $150/month laundry fee covers and whether it's waivable, and don't expect to lean on BBB or Yelp data the way you could with a larger operator; your best due diligence here is a direct reference check with Josh and Carlie themselves.