Vacation rental management in Haines City, Davenport and Southern Dunes: local people on the ground, a full technology stack behind them, and books that are always clean. You own it; we run it.
Now welcoming owners in Central Florida. We're growing in Haines City, Davenport and the Southern Dunes golf community one home at a time, so every owner here gets close attention from day one.
See our Florida homes →Families come for the parks, golfers come for the winter, and the big events fill the weekends in between. We price every season on purpose.
Walt Disney World, Universal and SeaWorld are a short drive away, so families book big pool homes all year.
Just down the road in Winter Haven, a favorite with families who have younger kids.
Winter visitors come for Southern Dunes and the courses around ChampionsGate and Davenport.
The Detroit Tigers play spring training in nearby Lakeland, bringing fans down from the North.
One of the world's biggest fly-ins and air shows, at Lakeland's airport. It fills rentals across Polk County.
Spring break, summer and the winter holidays are peak weeks for families and big groups.
Guests plan their trip on our Haines City destination guide, which has local tours and things to do.
Southern Dunes is one of the best-known golf communities in Haines City, and it's where we manage Bermuda Pointe. We already know the neighborhood, the guests it draws and how to run a home there.
Your home is listed and tuned on the largest booking platform.
Reaches families and larger groups, who book longer stays.
Reaches international and business travelers.
One calendar, guest messaging and digital guidebooks across every channel. No double bookings.
Revenue experts optimize your rates, fees and listing so your home earns more.
Rates adjust every day for demand, events and seasonality.
SuiteKeeper sets a unique lock code for every guest. SuitePortal gives guests check-in details. SuiteVerify checks guest ID.
VRPlatformBookkeeping and clear monthly owner statements.
Lodging taxes reported and paid. Licenses tracked and renewed.
Every review from every platform in one place, so we see and respond to all of them.
thehousekee.comOur own booking site. Repeat guests book direct and skip platform fees.
Most managers keep this in a spreadsheet. Ours runs like a professional firm.
Not every property manager carries insurance, and fewer carry the right coverage. We've made a serious investment in ours, because your home is on the line.
The House Kee carries general liability and errors & omissions coverage through Wister Insurance, specialists in insuring short-term rental managers. The company caring for your home is covered too, not just the home itself.
Standard homeowner policies often aren't written for short-term rental use. For your own policy, we recommend Proper Insurance, which is designed specifically for vacation rentals.
Our Head of Property Care handles maintenance in every market, from the first report until the job is closed.
We keep you posted on anything that affects guests or needs a real repair, and you always know where each job stands.
Trusted Central Florida handymen, pool techs, HVAC techs, plumbers, electricians and locksmiths we know and rely on.
Our cleaning team flags damage, wear and low supplies after stays, so small issues get handled before they grow.
Every job is logged with notes, the vendor, the cost and photos.
Routine fixes are approved within your contract limit. Bigger decisions always come to you first.
Lockouts, leaks and heating or AC problems go to the front of the line.
Every home we manage gets its own page on thehousekee.com, with live availability and secure checkout. It's a booking channel you don't share with millions of other listings.
OUR PORTFOLIO
Recent stays at our Haines City and Davenport homes, from Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com.
“We had a tall order of things we wanted in a rental property, and this place ticked every single box. A private pool, a comfortable outdoor seating area, a safe and quiet neighborhood.”
“Exceptional service, cleanliness, and location. The home was thoughtfully stocked with all the amenities required for a carefree and relaxing vacay! Very responsive with helpful and timely updates.”
“The home was clean, airy, and full of natural light, such a refreshing space to come back to after busy park days. The kitchen was beautiful and well-stocked.”
FAQS
Our fee is a percentage of your net nightly rate — not your total booking revenue. That distinction matters more than it sounds like it would.
Some property managers quote a percentage but apply it to the full top-line booking total, which often includes the cleaning fee, the guest service fee, and sometimes taxes passed through the platform. Those pass-through amounts inflate the number their percentage is taken from, even though none of that money is actually rental income you’re keeping. The result is a management fee that’s quietly larger than it looks.
We only take our percentage from the nightly rate itself — the actual rental income. Cleaning fees, taxes, and platform charges pass through untouched. It’s a simpler, more transparent way to align our fee with what you’re really earning, and we’re happy to walk you through exact numbers once we’re discussing your specific property.
Every home we manage runs on the same professional systems, so you never have to buy, learn or maintain them yourself:
Owners who self-manage usually pay for tools like these one by one. We’ll walk through pricing for your home on a discovery call.
In most cases, yes — Florida requires vacation rentals to hold a state vacation rental license from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) and to collect and remit state sales tax and county tourist development tax, and some cities and counties add their own registration rules. We manage licensing, inspections, and tax remittance for the owners we work with, so staying compliant isn’t something you have to track yourself.
Guest payments are held in a dedicated trust account, kept separate from our operating funds and reconciled through VRPlatform. That means your owner funds are always accounted for and your account is always funded.
Each month you receive a professional owner statement showing every booking, fee and expense, along with your owner payout. Statements are clear enough to hand straight to your accountant.
Yes. It’s your home. Tell us the weeks you want and we’ll block them on every booking channel.
Before you decide, we’ll show you what peak weeks like spring break, the holidays and winter golf season typically earn, so you can choose which weeks to keep for yourself and which to rent.
Usually, yes. Standard homeowner policies often aren’t written for short-term rental use, so we recommend a policy built for it. Our recommended carrier for owners is Proper Insurance, which specializes in vacation rentals.
Separately, The House Kee carries its own general liability and errors & omissions (E&O) coverage through our partner Wister Insurance, so the company managing your home is insured too.
A traditional (long-term) property manager places a tenant on a lease for months or years and handles relatively infrequent turnovers. An Airbnb / short-term rental manager runs your home like a small hospitality business: dynamic nightly pricing, listing optimization across booking platforms, frequent professional turnovers and cleaning, and fast, responsive guest communication. The House Kee specializes in the short-term side, which is what drives higher nightly revenue in a year-round vacation market like Central Florida.
Today we manage homes in the Southern Dunes golf community in Haines City and at Solterra Resort in Davenport. We’re growing across Central Florida, including Haines City, Davenport and the resort communities near the Orlando theme parks.
Own a home in Southern Dunes or nearby? Reach out and we’ll tell you right away whether it’s a fit.
Switching is more straightforward than most owners expect. We coordinate the transition around your existing reservations — honoring confirmed bookings, transferring guest details and calendars, and syncing your listings so nothing is double-booked or dropped. Most owners transition to a new property manager during the off-season for the smoothest handoff, but we can work with any timeline. We’ll map out the whole process for you during your free consultation.
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