The price you see is the price you pay. We add nothing at checkout.
What we charge
Charged on the accommodation — the nightly or monthly price. Never on the cleaning fee. A long stay is paid month by month — never the whole stay up front. Listing a place costs nothing.
We don’t take a cent of the cleaning fee.
Unlike other platforms, which charge on the whole booking — cleaning included — ours applies to the accommodation alone.
| Booking | Guest pays | They take | We take |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 week at $100 a night, $50 cleaning | $750 | $116.25 15.5% | $91.00 12.1% |
| 1 month of a long stay, at $1,500 | $1,500 | $232.50 15.5% | $150.00 10% |
Comparison figure: the single service fee charged by the largest short-stay platform — 15.5% of the booking subtotal, cleaning fee included. Verified August 2026.
Try it with your own price.
Nothing is added at checkout, so what a guest pays is the published price. This is where it goes.
Short stay
- Guest pays per night
- $100.00
- Machuca Homes fee 12%
- −$12.00
- Community Contribution 1%
- −$1.00
- The host receives per night
- $87.00
Cleaning is charged once per stay, not per night, and all of it goes to the host.
Long stay
- Guest pays each month
- $1,500.00
- Machuca Homes fee 9%
- −$135.00
- Community Contribution 1%
- −$15.00
- The host receives each month
- $1,350.00
The same on every month of the stay.
Payment processing is included.
1% of every booking stays in the valley.
It is called the Community Contribution, and it goes to the work the valley does for itself: the local HOA funds, and the social and ecological projects that keep this place the reason anyone comes here.
Nobody is asked to opt in and nobody pays extra for it — it is already inside the price, on every booking, in both directions. Renting a home here means taking part in the place it belongs to.