FOR SHERIDAN COUNTY PROPERTY OWNERS
Your venue. Held to a brokerage standard.
The only licensed, insured Wyoming vacation rental brokerage in Sheridan County actively managing event venues alongside short-term rentals. Marketing, inquiries, contracts, vendor coordination, on-site execution — under one license, one team, one accountable broker.
WYOMING REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE · LICENSED · INSURED · LOCAL · ACCOUNTABLE
IF ANY OF THESE ARE TRUE, WE SHOULD TALK
You didn't buy a property to become an events business.
Most Sheridan-area property owners who could be operating a venue are doing one of three things instead.
One: managing their own events part-time, chasing inquiries between day jobs, drafting contracts in Word, hoping the caterer they trusted on the last booking is still in business. Margins are thin because the time cost is enormous, and the revenue ceiling is wherever a single person's bandwidth runs out.
Two: paying someone informal to "manage" the property — no broker license, no real estate accountability, often no insurance bridging the gap between "STR host" and "venue operator." When something breaks — a vendor no-show, a damage claim, a contract dispute — there's no professional standard backing the resolution.
Three: doing nothing. The property sits idle. The carrying cost shows up every month. The opportunity cost is the harder number to look at — but it's larger.
None of those is the right answer for a property with venue-grade bones. The right answer is a licensed, insured brokerage that operates the property as part of a portfolio — applying the same systems, vendors, and accountability we apply to our own venues. That's what Wyo Stays manages.
THE SCOPE OF SERVICE
Everything between the listing and the last guest leaving.
Marketing & Listing
SEO-optimized venue page on wyostays.com, photography coordination, social content strategy, paid acquisition where it earns its keep, listings across the right platforms with the right rates.
Inquiry & Sales
Inbound inquiry capture across web, phone, and social. Qualification calls. Contract drafting. Deposit collection. Real human responding within four business hours, every business day.
Vendor Coordination
Our preferred vendor network — caterers, florists, photographers, officiants, bartenders, DJs, rental teams — applied to your events. Warm introductions, scheduling, day-of coordination.
On-Site Event Operations
Day-of run-of-show. Setup oversight. Vendor management. Guest hand-off. Cleanup and reset. Professional event coordination, not a property manager improvising.
Calendar & Revenue
Dynamic pricing aligned with seasonality, demand pacing, and Sheridan event calendar (WYO Rodeo, Film Festival, holidays). Year-round revenue strategy — not just summer.
Reporting & Reconciliation
Monthly owner statements. Booking-by-booking ledger. Annual revenue reports for your tax preparer. Full transparency on every dollar in and out.
WHY THE LICENSE MATTERS
A real estate brokerage. Not a listing service.
Licensed & Insured
Wyo Stays is a Wyoming real estate brokerage with a responsible broker on record. Contracts you sign with us are held to the same professional standard as a real estate transaction — not a platform's terms of service.
Real Accountability
When something goes wrong — and at venues, things occasionally do — you have legal and professional recourse. We're regulated by the Wyoming Real Estate Commission. Informal operators aren't.
Insurance Bridge
Most personal property insurance doesn't cover venue operations. We bridge the gap with commercial event insurance baked into the management agreement. One less thing on your liability column.
Portfolio Leverage
Your venue plugs into the most reviewed STR portfolio in Sheridan County — 2,000+ verified guest stays, Airbnb Superhost, VRBO Premier Partner, Book Direct — No Channel Fees on the lodging side. That portfolio drives event inquiries to your venue you'd never see operating solo.
WHAT OWNERS EXPERIENCE
The numbers that matter to the person on the deed.
VERIFIED GUEST STAYS
Across the Wyo Stays portfolio — your venue inherits this audience.
AVERAGE GUEST RATING
Five-star delivery is the standard. Anything else gets corrected.
FIVE-STAR GOOGLE REVIEWS
Verified, third-party, indexable trust signals.
OF SHERIDAN STRs PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED
The market is wide open. We're the licensed operator in that 5.2%.
Numbers in this band reflect aggregate Wyo Stays portfolio performance. Individual property results vary based on property type, location, season, and capacity.
THE PATH FROM CONVERSATION TO CONTRACT
Four steps. Two to three weeks. Then we operate.
Discovery Call
30 minutes. No fee. We talk about your property, your goals, what's working and what isn't. You learn how we operate; we learn whether your property fits our portfolio.
Property Walk-Through
On-site visit at your property. We assess venue capacity, photography needs, infrastructure, and any prep work required to bring the room to brokerage standard.
Written Proposal
Within 5 business days of the walk-through. Detailed scope of service, fee structure, projected revenue range based on comparable Wyo Stays venues, and a draft management agreement for your attorney to review.
Onboarding & Launch
Once the management agreement is signed, photography and listing go live within 2 weeks. Marketing activates. Inquiries start. You stop being the events business.
IS YOUR PROPERTY A FIT?
Honest fit, not a sales pitch.
Where this works
- Properties that can host 20–80 guests for a seated dinner or 30–150 for standing reception
- Sheridan County, Johnson County, or Bighorn-adjacent locations — within roughly an hour of Sheridan
- Bones already in place: existing infrastructure, kitchen access, parking, restrooms (or feasible to add)
- Distinct character: a reason someone would choose your property over a hotel ballroom — historic, design-forward, scenic, intimate, full-bar, creek-side, ranch
- Owners ready to step back from operations and let a brokerage run the property as part of a portfolio
Where this might not work
- Properties that need significant capital investment before they're event-ready (we'll be honest about that on the walk-through)
- Locations outside our operating geography — we don't manage out-of-state, and we're cautious about properties more than ~90 minutes from Sheridan
- Owners who want hands-on involvement in every booking — our model assumes you're delegating, not co-managing
- Properties zoned or HOA-restricted from commercial event use — we'll flag this on Step 2 (walk-through) before any agreement
- Short-term flips where the goal is selling rather than operating — we manage for ongoing revenue, not staging-for-sale
HOW WE ACTUALLY OPERATE
Brokerage-grade operations. Local-team execution.
Most property owners considering venue management are choosing between three patterns: hire individuals (a coordinator, a marketer, a bookkeeper), pay a percentage to an out-of-state platform that doesn't know Sheridan, or DIY through Airbnb and hope for the best.
Wyo Stays is none of those. We're a single-stack Wyoming brokerage operating venues and short-term rentals as one connected portfolio. That gives owners three things the other models don't.
One operating system. Every property in our portfolio runs on the same tech stack — HostAI for booking and channel management, Guesty for property operations, the Wyo Stays direct-booking flow for guests who skip the channels. New properties onboard into this system in two weeks. Owners don't get a custom workflow; they get the proven one.
One vendor network. The catering, floral, photography, DJ, and rental partners we work with at venues like Gratitude Sheridan, The Main Exchange, Harbor Hideout, and Clear Creek Crossing are the same ones we apply to your events. Consistent quality, real relationships, pricing that reflects volume.
One accountable broker. Dalton Goodyear is the responsible broker on every Wyo Stays management agreement. Your contract isn't with a platform, a franchisee, or a shifting cast of property managers. It's with a licensed Wyoming broker who lives in Sheridan and answers his phone.
The Book Direct — No Channel Fees model on the lodging side feeds the venue side. Guests who stay with Wyo Stays book direct, which means we own the relationship, which means we can introduce those guests to venue inquiries when their needs evolve. Our 2,000+ guest lodging portfolio → That's the portfolio leverage owners can't replicate alone.
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START THE CONVERSATION
Tell us about your property.
Discovery call within four business days. No fee for the call, the walk-through, or the proposal. You owe us nothing until you sign an agreement.
OWNER QUESTIONS
The honest answers.
What's your management fee structure?
We use a performance-aligned fee structure that surfaces in the written proposal after the property walk-through. Fees vary by property type, capacity, scope of service, and whether lodging is paired with venue management. Every proposal includes the full fee schedule, projected revenue range, and a clear net-to-owner estimate based on comparable Wyo Stays venues.
Is the management agreement long-term?
Initial agreements typically run 12 months with automatic renewal. Either party can terminate with 60 days written notice. We don't lock owners into multi-year terms — the work earns the renewal.
Who handles the contracts with end clients (couples, corporate, etc.)?
Wyo Stays drafts, sends, and executes all event contracts under our brokerage. The owner's name is not on those contracts. That's part of the liability bridge the brokerage license provides.
What happens if something gets damaged during an event?
Every event contract includes damage deposit terms and a clear claim process. Most claims resolve from the deposit. Larger claims go through our commercial event insurance. Owners are not chasing reimbursement personally — that's not how brokerage management works.
Can I still use the property for my own events or personal stays?
Yes. Owner-blocked dates are part of the management agreement. Most owners reserve a personal block annually plus flexibility for family events. We coordinate around your dates, not the other way around.
Do you require exclusivity?
Yes for the active management term. We don't run a property where a competing manager is also booking events — too much risk of double-booking and reputation friction. The agreement is exclusive for the duration; either party can exit per the 60-day notice clause.
What if I want to sell the property mid-agreement?
The management agreement transfers or terminates depending on the buyer's intent. We've structured several owner exits and never made the transition painful. Talk to us before listing if a sale is on the horizon.
Why Wyo Stays vs. self-managing on Airbnb / VRBO?
Three structural differences. One: we hold a Wyoming real estate brokerage license — Airbnb hosts don't. Two: we operate the lodging-and-venue portfolio together, which drives inquiries to your venue you'd never see solo. Three: we handle contracts, vendor coordination, insurance bridge, and on-site execution — Airbnb handles a booking calendar. Different operating altitudes.
START THE CONVERSATION
Your property. Our license. The portfolio behind both.
Request a proposal. Discovery call is free. The walk-through is free. The proposal is free. You owe us nothing until you sign an agreement.
"Brokerage-grade venue management. Held to a real estate standard. Built in Sheridan." — Dalton