Listing & Photography
Editorial photography. Listing copy across Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. Which means your apartment competes on the way it's told — not on price.
I · Our service
Two weeks from signing to your first booking.
Short-term rental management in Latvia for apartment owners who want the revenue without becoming a hotel operator.
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Free · 48 hours · No commitment
II · The six chapters
Six chapters. One team. Every property, every day.
Each step adds what the last one earned.
Dynamic Pricing
Daily rate calibration on demand, season, events, and what your street is charging tonight. Floor-protected. Which means you never undersell on the nights you wouldn't have had time to track.
How does our pricing system work?
It starts with industry-standard pricing systems, then tuned against thousands of real Rīga bookings — drawing on Rīga data we've operated ourselves — and finished with our own logic layered on top. Three layers. One rate. Which lets us raise the property's income well above the long-term-rent price.
Cleaning, turnaround & state inspection
Hotel-grade reset between every stay — disinfected linens, ironed sheets, condition checklist. Which means your property is prepared every single time by a team trained specifically for short-term-rental quality.
Guest Experience
We answer in any language, under 2 minutes, around the clock. Which means a 2 AM question becomes a 2 AM answer, not a 6 AM angry review.
Keyless arrival — no key handoff. Which means no 11 PM parking-lot meetings when a guest's flight is delayed.
Tailored Strategy
Each apartment is positioned for its strengths — couples' weekend, family large-format, business stay. Rebalanced as the market shifts. Which means your apartment hosts 5-star guests, not complaint guests.
Transparent Reporting
Monthly itemized statements, tailored to each owner's needs. Tax withheld and filed at source — you receive the net amount, no further deductions. You never have to ask "where's my money this month?" — it's already on the statement.
2024
Operating since
35+
Apartments under management
12,000+
Guests hosted
III · Onboarding
Ninety minutes of your time. Two weeks of ours.
From signing the contract to your first booking takes about two weeks. Most of that work happens without you — by design. Here's how the time splits.
~90 min
Your total time
~14 days
Our continuous work
This is the total. No follow-up calls, no "we'll send you one more thing to approve."
YOU
Apartment owner
- ~30 min Apartment assessment. We visit. (To speed it up — you can send us photos.)
- ~15 min Sign the contract. Paper or electronic.
- ~45 min Approve the setup list. We send a budget for what's missing — linens, kitchenware, the small things. You approve or revise once. We coordinate the buying.
~90 minutes total
US
Kanor operations
- Day 1 Apartment inspection. Missing-items list compiled with a clear budget and sent to you. If significant improvements are needed, we say so openly — we won't set up an apartment we wouldn't rent ourselves.
- Days 2–4 Linens, towels, kitchenware, supplies sourced. Deliveries coordinated.
- Days 5–7 Apartment setup completed. Smart-lock installed. Cleaning rota set. Inventory and condition documented with photo records.
- Day 8 Professional editorial photoshoot. We hire the photographer and we pay.
- Days 9–11 Listing copy across Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo in three languages. Pricing strategy calibrated. Tax registration filed.
- Days 12–13 Listings go live across all channels. Pricing system attached. Calendar sync. Welcome guide printed and placed.
- Day 14 First booking arrives. You see it in your email when you open your phone — at the café, in the car, at home. Your phone stays quiet.
~14 days, no interruption on your side
IV · The night shift
What happens between 11 PM and 7 AM? Your phone stays quiet.
Three guest messages. Three responses. The full path each takes — and where you don't appear in it.
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11:34 PM
"The WiFi password isn't working."
Our team replies in under 2 minutes, in the guest's language. It's a typo on the listing — we send the correct one. They're online in 4 minutes.
Which means the 5-star review stays a 5-star review. And the message never reaches you.
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1:08 AM
"I'm at the door, the code won't open it. My flight was delayed."
Every apartment we manage has its own backup access plan — mapped during onboarding, customized for your building. We activate it. The guest is inside in 3 minutes.
Which means no 1 AM call to you. No emergency hotel on your card. No refund demand in the morning.
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3:22 AM
"There's water leaking under the kitchen sink."
Our emergency contractor is on-call 24/7. If the fix can't happen immediately, we move the guest to another apartment we manage in central Riga. The damage is documented for the insurance claim.
Which means you wake up to a fixed apartment and a thank-you review. Not a 2 AM crisis call.
V · Reporting
Every line. Every receipt. Every month.
Three documents arrive on schedule — monthly statement, line-by-line booking log, tax receipts — and a dashboard you can open any time.
Revenue
Bookings (12)
itemized per night, per channel
Average daily rate
per channel breakdown
Deductions
Channel fees
Airbnb / Booking / Vrbo — itemized
Cleaning (12 turnovers)
per turnover, with cleaner ID and timestamp
Linens, towels, supplies
with receipts attached
Tax withheld at source
VID receipt attached
Kanor commission
calculated from gross revenue
Net to owner
direct deposit, scheduled monthly
78%
Occupancy
142
Bookings
Average rating
Airbnb 60%
Channel mix
Every line of every number is itemized, traceable, timestamped. The only thing not on this page is the rate.
VI · Commercial model
We don't publish a rate. We calculate it for your apartment.
Every line on the previous page is itemized for a reason — nothing in our commercial model is hidden. Including the rate. Which is why we don't publish a generic number here.
A published rate would lie about your apartment.
Apartments differ — in location, in starting condition, in platform mix, in seasonal pattern. Each moves the commission that's actually fair. We could publish a midpoint and call it our rate, like many other managers do. But the midpoint would be wrong for nearly every apartment we manage. So we don't publish.
What we do publish is a process. The estimate form takes 90 seconds and three fields. You receive a tailored number within 48 hours.
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VII · The five won'ts
Five things we won't do.
Every other manager has a commercial reason to. Here's why we don't.
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We won't promise 90%+ occupancy.
That's industry hype. Our portfolio averages 72% — 78% in Old Town. Consistent quality, not the fairy tale.
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02
We won't list a unit we wouldn't rent ourselves.
If our data shows your apartment won't earn more on the short-term market, we'll send you the figures and recommend you stay long-term. We won't take on an apartment we think will underperform.
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03
We won't lock you in.
End the contract any time. 90-day transition so existing bookings can be honored. Your apartment is always yours to pull back.
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04
We won't waste your time if we're not the right fit.
If your apartment is already at 80%+ occupancy and your building leases predictably long-term, we'll tell you straight. You might keep more by staying with what works.
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05
We don't only manage other owners' apartments.
We operate units in this same portfolio ourselves. The systems we use for you, we use for us. If it doesn't work for our units, it doesn't go to yours.
Even Jolanta asked these questions
Before Jolanta signed the contract in 2024. First-year uplift: +€4,144. Same apartment. Different operator.
VIII · The hard questions
The questions every owner has. Most don't ask.
These are the five we hear in the kitchen, not in the meeting. We put them on the page anyway.
When do I get the first money?
The first money arrives in your account within 30–45 days after the first booking — depending on the platform's payout schedule. After that, at each month-end you receive a report with the net amount, transferred to your account at the start of the next month.
Who pays for utilities?
You pay for utilities out of the apartment's income. In individual cases, Kanor Management takes over utility payments via power of attorney — when there's a financial reason to do so.
My apartment is in Old Town or Centre. The building association may not approve short-term rental. What then?
We first clarify the building association's position — before signing the contract, free of charge, within two business days. If the association is against it, we don't start work and we tell you openly.
Can I use the apartment myself — say, two weeks in summer?
Yes. Block the dates in the calendar at least 4 weeks in advance. Commission isn't applied to weeks you use yourself — you only pay for cleaning before and after the guest.
What happens to my apartment and listings if you stop operating?
Listings are removed from the platforms. After 2 years you can start short-term rental again — or a new buyer can set it up from scratch — without our review history attached, with a clean slate. The only exception: if you come to us already running your own Airbnb or Booking.com listings, we take over operations only — your profile and reviews stay yours.
IX · The estimate
Very simple… Address, bedrooms, email — with the numbers within 48 hours.
Request received.
Your estimate will be in your inbox within 48 hours.
It helps to give accurate details so the whole process is quick and easy. If it works for you, we'll set up a chat. If not, you'll always have the data to compare.