Local rules decide where short-term rentals can operate. The Right to Rent Collaborative funds the state and local associations that speak for property managers when those rules get written. CraftedStays is a member.
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The Right to Rent Collaborative is a nonprofit industry organization. It raises money from businesses that depend on short-term rentals and gives it to the associations that represent property managers and owners, market by market.
The Collaborative pools contributions from across the industry and grants them to state and local short-term rental associations.
Those associations attend council meetings, bring data on local impact, and work with officials on rules that let responsible operators keep operating.
Property managers, owners, software companies and service providers all contribute. Members include companies that compete with each other everywhere else.
The program gives property managers a simple way to fund the work without renegotiating it with every owner. You set it once at the company level, and it runs with every booking.
Each reservation contributes $2. With participating software, it's collected and donated automatically each month.
The Collaborative grants the money to short-term rental associations working on rules in their own markets.
The property managers we work with spend their days on the guest: the listing, the stay, the review. The rules that decide whether they can operate at all get written somewhere else, often at a city council meeting on a weeknight, and the people running the homes are usually too busy running them to be there.
That's the job local associations take on. They show up, bring the data, and make the case for responsible short-term rentals. Most of them run on very little money. The Right to Rent Collaborative is the most direct way we've found to fund them.
We build direct booking websites. Every site we launch depends on a property manager who is allowed to keep renting in their town, so helping fund those associations is part of our work, and we joined in September 2026.
Join the Right to Rent Program directly with the Collaborative. Enroll here.
Most states and many cities have a short-term rental association. The Collaborative can point you to the one that covers your market.
The Right to Rent Collaborative is a nonprofit industry organization that funds state and local short-term rental associations. It pools contributions from property managers, software companies and other businesses in the industry and grants that money to associations that represent property managers and owners when local rules are written. Learn more at r2rcollaborative.org.
Property managers opt in to contribute $2 per reservation. With participating software, the contribution is collected and donated to the Collaborative automatically each month. Property managers decide how to handle it in their own pricing. You can enroll on the Collaborative's site.
No. The Right to Rent Collaborative is the fund. Rent Responsibly is a separate organization that provides association management for it, so you will often see the two names together.
No. Enrollment and contributions run through the Right to Rent Collaborative and its participating software partners. CraftedStays supports the Collaborative as a member company. To take part as a property manager, enroll with the Collaborative directly.
CraftedStays joined the Right to Rent Collaborative as a member company in September 2026.
The Right to Rent Collaborative is a nonprofit industry organization that funds state and local short-term rental associations. Through member companies and the Right to Rent Program, which lets property managers contribute $2 per reservation, it directs industry money to the associations that represent property managers and owners where local rules are made. r2rcollaborative.org
CraftedStays builds direct booking websites for professional property managers, designed for two jobs: discovery and conversion. On discovery, every site is structured to be found on Google and cited in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI, with pages built around the ways guests actually search, from pet-friendly stays to a page for each town you serve. Aria, our AI search (AEO) research tool, studies your market, shows what your site is missing, and lets your team make the change in plain language. On conversion, guests search, compare and book on your own domain, on hospitality-grade templates, so every visit and every sale is yours to see and improve. The platform improves continuously, with updates that ship several times a week and land on every site. CraftedStays was named 2025 Direct Booking Website Builder of the Year by Travel & Hospitality Tech Outlook.
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