15% of gross booking revenue, plus a R$ 5.000 fixed monthly salary.

A commission alone (the 15–30% Brazilian short-term-rental management band, 16% being what one named Rio operator, HostnJoy, charges) leaves income entirely dependent on occupancy — thin in the eight low-season months. The fixed R$ 5.000/month floor covers that gap; the 15% keeps the upside tied to actual performance. What follows is where that structure actually lands once real seasonal demand is applied.

Covers: guest communication, cleaning/turnover coordination, dynamic pricing, and keeping every listing's photography and description aligned to the design standard from Sections 01–07 — for as long as the portfolio runs, across all eight units including the penthouse.


Rio's high season is real — but the swing is milder than the postcard suggests.

December–March (summer, Réveillon, Carnival) is confirmed high season for Rio de Janeiro; April–November is low season, with a minor secondary bump in July from winter school-holiday travel. The occupancy swing between them is real but modest — nowhere near a 40%-to-80% split.

MetricLow season (Apr–Nov)High season (Dec–Mar)
OccupancyEstimate~52%~62%
Average daily rateEstimateR$ 465R$ 571

Method: Rio-wide confirmed seasonal ratios (AirROI — high-season occupancy 49.6% vs low-season 41.5%; high-season ADR $140 vs low-season $114) applied proportionally to Santa Teresa's own confirmed annual-blended baseline (R$450–550/night, ~55% occupancy) from earlier research. A Santa Teresa-specific month-by-month source exists but gave self-contradicting seasonality claims across two queries — excluded as unreliable. Treat the split above as a reasoned estimate, not a measured one.

How many nights, how many bookings.

Across the 7 mid-market units — the penthouse isn't included here since it has no confirmed ADR data of its own.

Metric (7 units, per month)Low seasonHigh season
Nights bookedEstimate~110~131
Bookings (at ~4-night avg. stay)Estimate~27~33
Gross revenueEstimateR$ 51.063R$ 74.949

4-night average stay is an assumption (a common global Airbnb entire-home average), not a Santa Teresa-confirmed figure — flagged, not measured.


Gross revenue, split three ways.

Airbnb's flat 16% platform fee (updated 2026 — Brazil moved to a single host-side fee, replacing the old split-fee model), Keyla's 15% + R$ 5.000 fixed monthly salary, and what's left for the owner. Because Keyla's cut has a fixed component, her share of gross is actually larger in low season (24.8%) than high season (21.7%) — the floor doing its job. Bar length itself scales with season — high season is the wider bar, at the same gross revenue shown above.

Low Season

R$ 51.063 gross/month · 7 units · Apr–Nov
R$ 30.233

High Season

R$ 74.949 gross/month · 7 units · Dec–Mar
R$ 46.715
Airbnb platform fee (16%)
Keyla — 15% + R$ 5.000 fixed
Owner's net
Monthly (7 units)Low seasonHigh season
Gross revenueR$ 51.063R$ 74.949
Airbnb platform fee (16%)– R$ 8.170– R$ 11.992
Keyla — 15% commission + R$ 5.000 fixed– R$ 12.659– R$ 16.242
Owner's netR$ 30.233R$ 46.715

Carnival and Réveillon, priced separately — and now counted.

The high-season figures above are a monthly average across December–March. Within that window, two distinct events — Carnival and Réveillon (New Year's Eve) — specifically command 2–3x normal rates, not the +23% seasonal average — confirmed by multiple host-level sources. Rather than leave that as an uncounted footnote, each is priced here on its own line, added on top of the seasonal model rather than folded into it (together they're ~8% of the high-season period — too small a share to meaningfully distort the monthly averages above, so nothing is subtracted back out to compensate).

EventDaysLow estimateHigh estimate
Carnival (Fri–Tue, ~6 days)Estimate6R$ 43.168R$ 64.751
Réveillon (Dec 30–Jan 2, ~4 days)Estimate4R$ 28.778R$ 43.168
Event revenue, 7 units, per year10R$ 71.946R$ 107.919

Same assumptions for both events: ~90% occupancy, 2–3× the regular high-season rate (R$ 571 → R$ 1.142–1.713/night). Midpoint used going forward: R$ 89.932/year across 7 units (Carnival R$ 53.960 + Réveillon R$ 35.973, at 2.5×).


Rough annual picture, 7 units — Carnival and Réveillon included.

Weighting 4 high-season months and 8 low-season months, plus the event-day bonus above, at 15% commission + R$ 5.000/month fixed (R$ 60.000/year):

Annual (7 units)Amount
Gross booking revenue (seasonal model)R$ 708.300
+ Event-day bonus (Carnival + Réveillon, mid)R$ 89.932
Total gross booking revenueR$ 798.232
Airbnb platform fee (16%)R$ 127.717
Keyla — 15% commission + R$ 60.000 fixed salaryR$ 179.735
Owner's net (mid estimate)R$ 490.780

Range across the event-day low/high estimate: total gross R$ 780.246–816.219, Keyla's total pay R$ 177.037–182.433, owner's net R$ 478.370–503.191. Still before any redesign uplift — this is what the 7 units are worth performing at today's Santa Teresa market average, event days included. The whole rest of this proposal is the argument for why a well-curated, upmarket-positioned unit should outperform it.


The penthouse runs on its own economics — but it's the same 15% + R$ 5.000 structure.

The penthouse (Unit 8) is a distinct luxury product, not a mid-market unit — full revenue reasoning is on its own page. It doesn't add a second fixed salary; Keyla's R$ 5.000/month covers the whole Portfolio Administrator role regardless of how many units are live. Combined:

Annual (8 units)LowMidHigh
Total gross booking revenueR$ 936.932R$ 994.967R$ 1.062.857
Airbnb platform fee (16%)R$ 149.909R$ 159.195R$ 170.057
Keyla — 15% commission + R$ 60.000 fixed salaryR$ 200.540R$ 209.245R$ 219.429
Owner's netR$ 586.483R$ 626.527R$ 673.371

This combined view assumes all 8 units are live simultaneously — in practice the penthouse starts earning immediately while Units 1–7 are still being restored, so the actual ramp-up is staggered, not a single day-one jump to this total.


A luxury-branded booking site, offered free — paid for by the fee it bypasses.

Alongside the retainer, Keyla is proposing to build and run a dedicated booking website for the portfolio — its own luxury branding, direct availability and booking, not just an Airbnb listing page. It costs the owner nothing extra to build. The pitch: every booking made directly through that site skips Airbnb entirely, so the 16% platform fee that booking would have paid never leaves the property's revenue at all.

Planning assumption — Estimate — is that a well-run direct site could capture 80% of bookings once established, with the remaining 20% still coming through Airbnb for discovery and reach. Of the Airbnb fee saved on that 80% share, Keyla proposes a 30% bonus for herself, with the other 70% staying with the owner as pure upside on top of the retainer economics above.

Annual (8 units)LowMidHigh
Total gross booking revenueR$ 936.932R$ 994.967R$ 1.062.857
Direct-booking share (80%)R$ 749.546R$ 795.974R$ 850.286
Airbnb fee avoided on that share (16%)R$ 119.927R$ 127.356R$ 136.046
Keyla's bonus (30% of fee avoided)R$ 35.978R$ 38.207R$ 40.814
Owner's extra net (70% of fee avoided)R$ 83.949R$ 89.149R$ 95.232

This is on top of the owner's net already shown above — not a replacement for it. Two things this doesn't account for: a direct booking system still carries its own payment-processing cost (typically 2–4%, vs. Airbnb's bundled 16%), so the real net saving is somewhat smaller than shown; and the 80% direct-booking share is a planning assumption, not a Brazil-specific or luxury-market-confirmed figure — global operator surveys (Hostfully/StayFi, Houfy, 2025–26) put average direct-booking share in the 20–34% range, so 80% assumes the branded site meaningfully outperforms typical operator benchmarks.

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