My name is Ken Dailey, and alongside my wife Danielle, I co-own and operate Yeti Cohosting. Together, we bring over 25 years of combined experience across real estate valuation, property operations, asset optimization, and short-term rental investing in high-barrier mountain markets.
We have lived and invested in the Truckee–North Lake Tahoe region for over two decades and remain deeply embedded in the local real estate, construction, and investment community.
Before launching Yeti Cohosting, Danielle and I worked in real estate valuation and analytics, advising on property performance, market trends, and asset positioning. That background shaped how we think about short-term rentals: not as “listings,” but as income-producing real estate assets.
Yeti Cohosting was intentionally designed to sit at the intersection of:
This perspective is what separates us from traditional property managers and transactional co-hosting companies.
The rise of Airbnb and Vrbo exposed a fundamental gap in the market.
Traditional property managers lacked the technology, pricing intelligence, and digital distribution needed to compete online. At the same time, platform-only operators lacked the local expertise, asset care, and ownership mindset required to protect high-value properties.
We knew there was a better way.
Yeti Cohosting was built to combine:
The result is a model designed for owners who care about long-term performance, not just short-term bookings.
Yeti Cohosting is one of the few firms in this market that has real skin in the game.
We own and operate multiple STR investment properties in Truckee–North Lake Tahoe, including one of the top-performing rentals on Airbnb in Truckee. The systems, strategies, and standards we deploy for our clients are the same ones we use on our own assets.
That alignment matters.
We think in terms of:
We work with:
Our services extend well beyond co-hosting and include:
Every decision is made through the lens of asset performance and guest demand.
We don’t aim to be the biggest company in Tahoe. We aim to be the most effective partner for owners who want to do this the right way.
If you’re evaluating how to:
We’d be honored to have that conversation.
We work with homeowners in the Truckee-North Tahoe area, including Tahoe Donner, Donner Lake, Sierra Meadows, Grays Crossing, Northstar, Palisades, Alpine Meadows, Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Kingswood, and more.
Contact us to learn how Yeti Cohosting approaches real estate differently and why that difference matters.
