Airbnb Co-Hosting in Sheridan, Wyoming

If you own a short-term rental in Sheridan County and you're looking for a co-host, here's the honest version of what that word can mean: anything from a neighbor who checks your lockbox to a licensed brokerage that carries your money in a state-regulated trust account. Both call themselves a co-host. Only one of them is legally accountable if something goes wrong.

Wyo Stays is a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage, based in Sheridan, that co-hosts Airbnb listings across Sheridan County and the surrounding Bighorn region.

What we handle

• Listing setup — professional photography, copywriting, and syndication across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and our own direct-booking site
• Pricing & availability — nightly rates rebuilt weekly against live Sheridan County comp data
• Booking requests — handled under a written property management agreement, with guest funds flowing through a state-regulated brokerage trust account, not a personal account
• Guest messaging — answered by a person based in Sheridan
• On-site support — every property we manage is within twenty minutes of a team member
• Cleaning & maintenance — our own crews (Neat Fleet and Ready Fleet), not subcontracted out to whoever answers the phone that week
• Licensing & tax filing — Sheridan home-based-business registration, Wyoming Department of Revenue registration, lodging and sales tax setup and remittance
• What happens when you're done with short-term — if the season turns or you decide to sell, we can place a long-term tenant, manage a commercial lease, or list and sell the property. That's a real estate transaction, and it requires a license to handle. Most co-hosts have to hand you off at that point. We don't.

Why the license matters

Under Wyoming law, managing a rental for someone else's compensation — collecting rent, handling bookings, managing the property — is a regulated real estate activity (Wyo. Stat. § 33-28-102). A licensed brokerage operating under that statute has to hold your money in a dedicated trust account that can't be commingled with operating funds (§ 33-28-122), carries a fiduciary duty to you, and answers to the Wyoming Real Estate Commission if it doesn't.

An unlicensed co-host — however good the guest experience is — doesn't carry any of that. There's no trust account requirement, no regulator, and no license for the state to revoke if things go wrong. That's not a knock on any individual person; it's just a different legal category, and it's worth knowing which one you're hiring into.

You can verify any manager's license status yourself through the Wyoming Real Estate Commission in about thirty seconds. We'd encourage you to check ours, and anyone else's you're considering, before you sign anything.

Service area

Based in Sheridan, we co-host and manage properties throughout Sheridan County — including Big Horn, Story, Dayton, Ranchester, and Banner — and, as a licensed statewide brokerage, take on properties elsewhere in Wyoming as well.